Colombo, Nov 10: India's 'New Wave' director Amit Saxena, whose film "Jism" with its erotic undertones caught the imagination of audiences across South Asia this year, has relocated to Sri Lanka for an even more daring venture. Following a trajectory away from the usual Bollywood formula of romance, song and dance, Saxena's "Take Two" examines the role of destiny in a person's life -- a theme barely tapped on a sub-continent where tens of millions really believe that the stars do foretell the future. In the movie, ramp model turned fashion designer, Sheena -- played by Vidya Mallavde -- arrives in Sri Lanka's capital from India to give a fashion show which she hopes will land her an assignment.

Despite working all night on her creations, she loses out on the job and as she walks dejectedly out of the building, her life splits in two.
In one life she realises her dream and in the other she reaches the same point -- her destiny -- but first has to tread a tortuous path to get there.

"Everybody in this subcontinent operates by that parameter. Even in our dreams and prayers we are thinking of another life to come. It is something unique to this region and I think that's what binds us together as one people." Bureau Report