Nikkhil Advani: 'Baazaar' is not inspired by 'The Wolf of Wall Street'

Since the release of the poster of Nikkhil Advani's 'Baazaar' starring Saif Ali Khan, there has been a speculation that the film is inspired by Hollywood's 'The Wolf of Wall Street'. Set against the backdrop of the stock market, Saif Ali Khan is playing the lead role of a Mumbai businessman in the film.

Talking about the same, Nikkhil Advani said, "'Baazaar' is about people who will always choose money over love and has a lot of research work behind it. Is it inspired by 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Absolutely not. Not at all. But I hope when you see the film you say we have matched up to that scale and achieved something brilliant. Why do we have to go to the West when everything is in the books over here."

Since the film was announced there has been a lot of speculation surrounding Saif's character. Nikkhil revealed that Saif plays a street smart Gujarati businessman. He further added, "Baazaar is about ‘dhando’, Saif is playing a Gujarati businessman. He looks very suave on the poster but he is a Gujarati businessman in the film. It is about this businessman who crosses lines left to right and centre."

Talking about Saif's one condition before signing the dotted line, Nikkhil added, "Saif’s one condition was, I don’t want people in this business to say ‘This doesn’t happen.’ So we narrated the film to a set of businessmen. They heard it and the only comment they made was, you are talking about Rs 200 and 300 crore, but we don’t talk in less than Rs 10,000 crore. Increase the numbers please."

Directed by Gauravv Chawla, 'Baazaar' stars Saif Ali Khan, Rohan Mehra and Radhika Apte in lead roles. Co-produced by Emmay Entertainment, 'Baazaar' is tentatively scheduled for a December 2017 release.

CREDITS: PTI