Bombay Velvet is an upcoming 2014 Hindi neo noir drama film directed and co-produced by Anurag Kashyap, based on historian Gyan Prakash's book Mumbai Fables. It is the story of the rise of an ordinary man named Johnny Balraj, played by Ranbir Kapoor and of how the city of Bombay became a metropolis against the backdrop of love, greed, violence and jazz music. The romantic thriller narrates the story of Johnny and his love Rosie, played by Anushka Sharma, an aspiring jazz singer and how their hopes and dreams keep colliding with their individual realities. Karan Johar plays a malicious villain with towering aspirations. A film about jazz clubs, a passionate love story, a growing metropolis and a phenomenal hunger for a good life; welcome to the city of opportunities and of scandals, welcome to Bombay Velvet. The film is scheduled for release on 28 November, 2014.
The film will feature Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in lead roles while Karan Johar will play the primary antagonist. Raveena Tandon, Kay Kay Menon and Siddharth Basu will appear in supporting roles.
The director initially got inspiration to do a film such as Bombay Velvet after reading the L.A. Quartet, which is a sequence of four crime fiction novels by James Ellroy, set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles.
The novels inspired him to dig into the dark trenches of the history of Bombay, where he found a treasure trove that was never-ending.
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