The new company plans to release a film every nine months. The four directors are Merchant, Chowhan, Parmeshwar Godrej and Udayan Bose, vice-chairman of Credit Capital, the Bombay-based venture capital company. The board of directors of the new company indicates that the financing will be mainly local.
The launch pad will be Bombay, Merchant's home town, where he is in the process of setting up a new company, Continental Film Productions Ltd. The film has been jointly scripted by the author, Keating, who has no cinematic experience, and the film's director, Zafar Hai, the Bombay-based ad film-maker, also making his debut in commercial cinema.Īrchana Puran Singh with Vinod NagpalMerchant's strategy is evident: to churn out a stream of low-cost quickies - The Perfect Murder took just seven weeks to film and cost around Rs 80 lakh. James Ivory is conspicuous by his absence, as is their favourite script-writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Merchant himself is listed in the credits as executive producer and had very little to do with the actual shooting of the film. The producer is a virtual unknown, Wahid Chowhan, Merchant's brother-in-law. Though The Perfect Murder will be released under the banner of Merchant-Ivory Productions, it has very little Merchant and hardly any Ivory. In fact, even Merchant himself may be setting the stage for reducing his personal involvement in the business of movie-making apart from lending his name and his famed capacity for fund-raising. It will allow him to straddle more comfortably the two worlds he operates in so successfully - the West, where his hustling style and brash confidence has earned him considerable fame and fortune, and India, where much of the inspiration for his major flims ( Heat and Dust, The Deceivers) has originated.īut that also means that the legendary Merchant-Ivory combination may be less in evidence as the plot progresses. That is undoubtedly a perfect script for Merchant.
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Keating, is the first of a series of low-budget films to be shot mainly in India, with local finance, directors and actors. The Perfect Murder, based on one of the well-known Inspector Ghote novels by H.R.F. But his latest production The Perfect Murder, scheduled for release in end-May, is a sign that the Merchant is now switching roles - from retail to the wholesale business. For over a quarter of a century, the Bombay-born film producer has - with American director James Ivory - forged one of the most enduring and profitable partnerships in modern motion picture history.
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This is a very good movie and I recommend this movie to Alfred Hitchcock and mystery/murder fans.(Far left) Skarsgard, Jaffrey, Chowhan, Khan, Shah, Hai, KeatingIf international cinema has a Merchant, his name is Ismail. He gave an outstanding role and put another character on my favorite list. Viggo is absolutely excellent in this movie. She really doesn't have a clue what Steven and David are up to in this twisting thriller. Gwenyth Paltrow on the other hand, plays a very innocent and lovely role. He scared me so much that I didn't feel comfortable about seeing this for the first time.
In this movie it is set to the level of Micheal Douglas's creepy and insanity side of his acting.
One way or another Steven has a plan, a plan to murder his own wife.with a little help from the someone else. Hiding the affair and making a tense move, Emily is put in the position to tell Steven or not. Emily falls in love and has an affair with a young painter, David Shaw (Mortensen). Micheal Douglas (Steven) and Gwenyth Paltrow (Emily) are a married couple.