Hissss director to unveil Mallika’s wrong attitude

 

When Mallika Sherawat went raving around the world about her ambitious Hollywood project Hissss, little did she expect that it would be a dud, or that her attitude towards the project and its director would backfire big time.

 

Director Jennifer Lynch had long ago said to a tabloid, “Hissss was taken away from me in the edit. I have no idea what the film looks like.” And then, she had added, “My name is all over it (the film). I can do nothing. But I want to come back.” And come back she did, and how!

 

Lynch has launched a frontal attack on the actress Mallika, her brother Vikram Singh and Govind Menon – the trio who transformed her vision into a historic disaster. That too, in the form of a film.

Directed by Penny Vozniak, Despite The Gods, a project that showcases the behind the scenes of what went wrong with Lynch and her Indian tryst, will open in Toronto this year. The documentary will explain how in 2008, when Lynch travelled to India to direct Hissss, things went wrong quickly.

Check out the official website of the film and you will know what exactly Lynch and Vozniak try to tell through this. “Perhaps there is a good reason why Hollywood and Bollywood have never blended like this before…” states the website and adds, “The more they plan, the more the Gods laugh. The more they try to lock things down, the more they seem to shift; locations, cast, scripts are constantly rotated, re-invented and improvised depending on what the Indian day brings.”

The first trailer of the film goes on to explain it further. In the snapshots, we see Lynch trying to explain her vision, and later crying helplessly. “I am 40 and single. And I am making a film about a snake woman. And I can’t have fun with it,” she says in utter disbelief. And that’s just a part of her tragic tale.

When contacted, Vikram Singh, co-producer of Hisss (and one of the triumvirate responsible for the snake-woman’s fall) simply said, “We are unaware of the documentary and if someone has to make it they have to take the rights from us.”

In spite of the copyrights issue, Lynch’s story behind the scenes sure seems more exciting than what went on in front of it during the making of the film. And who knows, this documentary will have more viewers than Mallika’s hisssstorical flop!