To provide the backstory for Chandni Chowk to China, Akshay Kumar revisited his personal journey from Bangkok chef to Bollywood superstar -- and destiny brought him to his idol, Mr. Gordon Liu.
Sometimes all it takes is a great poster. After producer Rohan Sippy and writer Shridhar Raghavan took a photo of Akshay Kumar and made him into a samurai, Kumar was so humored by their pitch that he signed onto the project immediately -- no script, no story, just the promise of making the first ever martial arts Bollywood film, set in China.
The first Hindi film backed by Warner Brothers Pictures (and only the third Bollywood co-production from a Hollywood studio, after Sony's Saawariya and Disney's Roadside Romeo), Chandni Chowk to China was given a large budget and more access, which allowed them more license for imagination. Let's not film on a fake soundstage in India. Let's actually shoot on the Great Wall of China. Let's not get just any martial arts choreographer. Let's get Dee Dee Ku, the stunt coordinator on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon who works regularly with Jet Li and Stephen Chow. And let's not get some Indian actor with a fake Chinese accent to play the bad guy. Let's get Gordon Liu from 36th Chamber of Shaolin to crash through a shattered window, jump off the balcony of an opera house, and ruthlessly assasinate his minions with a top hat.
While the Chandni Chowk to China team might not have started out with a concrete script, they had the ideal actor to build a Bollywood/kung fu story around. Before pursuing an acting career, Akshay Kumar trained in judo, taekwondo, and karate in Thailand, and he was working as a martial arts instructor in Bombay when a student suggested he get into modeling. He broke into the Bollywood film industry as an action star, making a series of Khiladi films: Khiladi, Main Khiladi Tu Anari, Sabse Bada Khiladi, Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi, Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi, International Khiladi, and most recently parodying himself in Om Shanti Om with The Return of Khaladi, almost a decade later.
By Ada Tseng
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