Thursday, January 24, 2008

Saif Ali Khan dreams of making film on music

Actor Saif Ali Khan, who occasionally strums guitars at rock concerts, wants to do his bit for Indian music by making a film about it. Khan, who recently started a film production house, said he wants to experiment with a film about Indian singers and music - a genre largely ignored by Bollywood.Hollywood has several films like "Ray" and "Walk the Line" that are based on the lives of real-life musicians. But the Indian film industry usually shies away from the topic, even though song-and-dance sequences are staple fare in Bollywood films."Our singers are very respected, so is our music," the 37-year-old actor said. "There are films that have been made …but how commercially successful those films were is questionable." "It is a fascinating genre… we have not experimented much with it," Khan said. "I wish to make such a film." The actor, who recently performed with the Parikrama rock band, said he started playing the guitar while still at school."Some of us even formed a band but we were really bad."

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