Derailed for months together by a governmental probe into producer Shah's alleged nexus with the underworld, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke is expected to be back on the track.
Once Santosh Kumar Jain, former president of the Film Federation of India, is able to execute court orders to release the film worldwide, the earliest that the audience can expect to watch the film on the screen is between March 16 and 23.
"There is still quite a bit of work to do before the film hits the silver screen. The mixing part of production work will begin within a couple of days. Subsequently, prints will be developed," Jain told a film weekly last week.
Initially slated for release on December 22, last year, this Salman-Preity-Rani starrer had not only the producer taken into custody, but also directors Abbas-Mastan were in trouble. However, now the court orders for receivership for it's early release have come as a breather to the distributors and small-time financers who have poured in their bucks into the making of the film-in-question.
The idea to keep airing the promos of the film on satellite television throughout the period of the controversy has helped it from vanishing from public memory. And, with Bollywood currently bereft of weighty releases, CCCC, with some real peppy numbers currently faring well in the charts, stands a good chance.
Derailed for months together by a governmental probe into producer Shah's alleged nexus with the underworld, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke is expected to be back on the track.