Mumbai, January 11: Mohit Suri’s next with Emraan Hashmi and new comer Neha Sharma, CROOK, with a proposed tagline, ‘It’s good to be bad’ is all set to roll in March and the location that Mohit has chosen is Melbourne, Australia.
In fact, Mohit is getting ready to leave with his cast and crew at the end of March and all the modalities have been met with. That the film is based on the racial discrimination and violence that students of Indian origin are facing in Australia, is a news that we broke on your favourite portal last year (Mohit Suri to make a film on racial discrimination – September 17, 2009). So, Australia was naturally the location that Mohit chose in order to shoot his film.
However, with the current spurt in violence and crime against Indians in Australia, the question that arises is how safe is it to shoot there? But Mohit has a very logical explanation. He points out that just because there is sudden rise in violence against Indians in Australia, it does not make it a racist country. He recalls that when he had visited Australia last year to hunt for locations he faced no difficulty and the people were very helpful.
He also adds that if he does not go to Australia, he too would be following the point of view of those crooked thinking people who stop outsiders from visiting/living in their country. He cites the example of the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, who, following the principles of non violence (ahimsa) fought against all sorts of racial and social discrimination, and of all the places, started his battle in South Africa, the country that was most notorious for it at that time!
Noble thoughts indeed Mohit! With such great courage and clarity of thoughts we are pretty sure that the Mohit-Emraan team will come up trumps once again
—Agencies