Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Beckham watch out! Circuit's coming

FIELD DAY: Andy, who has choreographed the action on most Nike ads, is impressed by Arshad Warsi.
If you thought cricket was the only religion Indians follow, one look at the training sessions for Vivek Agnihotri's forthcoming film Goal will definitely change your opinion.

"This is the closet I'll get to football," says Boman Irani.

"I love football…I think Beckham had better watch it out," says Arshad Warsi.

The coach who is training the actors for the film is football choreographer and former English premiere league player, Andy Ansah.

"People think they can just get a football coach. It's about football yes, but it's also about telling a story, general football doesn't tell a story. This is so football can tell stories. This is a story about emotions, about relationships," says Andy.

Andy, a man widely acknowledged as the best in the business of translating football onto the big screen has worked with the top football players in the world: Pele, Eric Cantona, Ronaldinho, David Beckham, Thierry Henry, Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.

He's also choreographed the action on most Nike ads. But one particular student has impressed him a lot.

"Oh he (Arshad Warsi) is good. Have u seen those feet move," Andy asks.

And Andy has an opinion on Bollywood too.

"Bride & Prejudice is a diluted, westernized Bollywood movie," he says.

And the only thing he is missing on the field right now is the presence of a heroine.

"At the moment yes, I am missing a heroine. That's only John Abraham's girlfriend, so I am not going to talk much about her," he says.

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