Now it can be told. Ajay has set up a makeshift gym in faroff Karaikudi for more than just recreation. For his role in Priyadarshan's hard-hitting tale of honour killing in Bihar, Ajay Devgan needs to have an especially toned-up physique. The film is yet untitled and stars Ajay Devgan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu and Paresh Rawal.

Talking about the film, Priyan says, "I've turned the horrific tale of an actual inter-caste romance in Bihar into a full-on actioner. See, I wanted to keep it real. At the same time, I wanted to make it riveting for the audience. So while shooting on an authentic location (Karaikudi is like a small town in Bihar), I've made my two heroes Ajay and Akshaye Khanna into full-on action heroes. This film has the kind of real stunts never seen in Hindi cinema."

Priyan has roped in his old action director B. Thyagarajan and Frances, a stunt director from South Africa, to devise action scenes which would take the director's Bihari drama into the region of riveting realism.

Says Priyan, "When I say real action, I mean fight scenes that are the opposite of cable-wired flips somersaults jumps and leaps. This time, Ajay has gone as raw as it can get."

The action sequences have both Devgan and Khanna locked in hand-to-hand combats, and other very basic forms of physical aggression that went out of vogue with the old Kung Fu films.

For this, Devgan needed to get into a different shape, and so did Akshaye. In fact, Akshaye is a new convert to the gym. Till this schedule in Karaikudi started, Ajay persuaded Akshaye to head for the gym.

"Yes we've a set up a terrific gym in this wilderness. It's been set up in an under-construction building. It has all the equipment," says Bipasha. "We all work out in it. Ajay and I, of course. Paresh Rawal also works out. Akshaye Khanna only used to play squash for exercise. Now he's started going to the gym. They need to get into a specific shape for this film."

Before producer Arbaaz Khan can shift Bihar to Vapi near Mumbai for the shooting of Abhinav Kashyap's Dabangg, Priyadrashan has relocated a village of Bihar in Karaikudi, a Tamil small town 80 kilometres from Madurai to shoot for his very real headline-derived inter-caste love story that shook rural Bihar some time ago.

Courtesy: Bollywood Hungama

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