`Aa Dekhen Zara` not copy of `Freeze Frame`: Neil Nitin

Is the forthcoming film "Aa Dekhen Zara" very similar to British movie "Freeze Frame"? This question now being asked in Bollywood gains significance because the Neil Nitin Mukesh-Bipasha Basu starrer was earlier titled "Freeze". The lead actor maintains the two are very different. Neil added that the film is not at all a copy of any film as there is not a single element in the film that has been copied.

Mumbai, March 22: Is the forthcoming film "Aa Dekhen Zara" very similar to British movie "Freeze Frame"? This question now being asked in Bollywood gains significance because the Neil Nitin Mukesh-Bipasha Basu starrer was earlier titled "Freeze". But the lead actor maintains the two are very different."What nonsense! I will reaffirm that `Aa Dekhen Zara` is an absolutely original film based on a completely original concept. It`s not at all a copy of any film. There is not a single element in the film that has been copied," Neil told reporters.

"Freeze Frame", a 2004 film starring Lee Evans in a lead role, was about an ultra-paranoid murder suspect who takes to filming himself round-the-clock to provide an alibi just in case he`s ever accused of another crime. Directed by Jehangir Surti, "Aa Dekhen Zara" tells the story of a man who gets a camera that can tell the future. "Just because the two films have a camera in the middle of it all doesn`t classify one as an original and other as a copy. You can`t bring two and two together and make it 22. Once you see the film you will realise that `Aa Dekhen Zara` has nothing to do with `Freeze Frame`," Neil said. He also explained: "`Freeze` was always the working title of the film and we always knew that it would change later. The kind of subject that we had in hand, the title `Freeze` wasn`t really going with it." So is he happy with the title `Aa Dekhen Zara`? "Of course, it`s just the apt title. The film is about something that may happen tomorrow courtesy the powers that the camera comes with. It`s like `let`s go and see what`s going to happen next`. So doesn`t the phrase `Aa Dekhen Zara` convey the same point? The same cannot be said about the word `Freeze`. You can`t excite people to peep into the future with that," Neil remarked. The film, which has Neil crooning a number, also stars Rahul Dev in an important role. IANS