The action star Jackie Chan will be visiting India in March
to shoot for his forthcoming Indo-Chinese movie Kung Fu Yog', which also stars
Bollywood actors Sonu Sood and Amyra Dastur.
News has it that Chan will be staying in Jaipur and will be
here for 15 days. A schedule of the movie has been wrapped up and now the cast
and crew is gearing up for the Indian shoot. Post that the team will head for
Beijing.
The co-production treaty, which is anticipated to transform
relations between the two nations on a film-making level, was signed in
September 2014. India’s Viacom18 Motion Pictures India and China’s Taihe
Entertainment Corp and Shinework Media are working together on the project.
The agreement is likely to prove a boon for the Indian film
industry, which has struggled to get its movies into China. The world’s most
populous nation operates a strict quota system of 34 movies per year for
foreign fare, and Indian films are often crowded out by better-known Hollywood
products. Officially sanctioned co-productions with Chinese film companies are
usually allowed to circumvent the quota. Chan’s films are hugely popular in
India, so China also looks likely to gain from the deal.
Kung Fu Yoga is scheduled to release this October.
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