Agent Vinod è l'attesissimo film d'azione diretto da Sriram Raghavan e interpretato da Saif Ali Khan e Kareena Kapoor. Pritam firma la colonna sonora. Fra i brani che la compongono, incuriosisce I'll do the talking tonight, rielaborazione della nota canzone Rasputin dei Boney M., per la quale la produzione di Agent Vinod ha regolarmente pagato i diritti. Kareena si offre in una coreografia di stampo classico in Dil Mera Muft Ka, mentre Saif sembra divertirsi un mondo nella visualizzazione di Pyaar Ki Pungi. Trailer.
Aggiornamento del 7 novembre 2019: vi segnalo l'intervista concessa da Saif Ali Khan a Mayank Shekhar, pubblicata oggi da Mid-Day. Saif Ali Khan: When my father died, Pataudi Palace got rented:
'[Referring to Sriram Raghavan's] Agent Vinod, that you wanted to make?
I made a mistake. I thought Jack Bauer from 24; so why not an Indian Agent Vinod? Apart from a complicated script, we missed out on the character's 'Indianness'. This guy was looking bit too western - dinner-jacket, suaveness. He should've been wearing chashma, holding a ball-pen...
Did you decide to shelve the film during its making?
No, again, Dinesh Vijan was [co-]producing. He is good at balancing stuff. What had happened was that we were shooting at a heritage site - action-sequence, with machine guns and all. We needed to blow up stuff. So we said, okay, there are a couple of beautiful, medieval temple structures...
No!
Of course not! We built replicas 100 yards away. The people there went nuts, suggesting that we were blowing up the complex. They stopped our shoot. We had to reschedule, scrap what we were doing, etc. But we managed'.
