Madhvan, Neetu connect to their Bihari roots

Madhavan, originally from Bihar, became a Tamil superstar before he migrated to Bollywood. So when he got to work with another Bihari Neetu Chandra, there was an instant bond between the two.

“And Bihar isn’t the only common factor between me and Neetu. We’re both athletic and sporty. We both play basketball,” says Madhavan who spent his childhood, growing years and early years Bihar.

Madhavan is enjoying every moment that he is spending on the promotion of 13B. His supernatural movie with Neetu is all set to arrive this Friday (March 6).

13B is a supernatural movie starring Madhavan, Neetu Chandra, Poonam Dhillon, Murali Sharma, Sachin Khedekar, and Deepak Dobriyal.

13B has music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and lyrics by Neelesh Mishra. The film is written and directed by Vikram K Kumar.

13B tells the story of a middle-class family which moves into a new apartment 13B where things start to get eerie when all the incidents that happen on a TV show start happening in their life as well.

Madhavan says he took up the project, directed by Vikram K Kumar, because it had an intriguing theme that’s scary as well.

“Vikram and I wanted to work together for last seven years but we did not have a script. We finally got a perfect script and worked on it for two years. This sort of movie has never been made in India before,” Madhavan is quoted as saying by a news agency.

Apart from 13B, Madhavan is presently doing three films in Bollywood – 3 Idiots with Aamir Khan , Teen Patti with Amitabh Bachchan and another film titled ‘Sikander’.

The film 13B is bilingual in Hindi and Tamil. While all the other actors in the two versions are different, Madhvan and Neetu are common actors to both the versions.

Apart from India, the film will see a limited release in the US, Canada, UAE, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia.

Says Big Pictures (the motion pictures brand of Reliance Big Entertainment) chief marketing officer Saurabh Varma said, “We truly believe in the potential of this project and are strategising ways to engage with the audience.”link