Abid, Bollywood Trade News Network

Though Tips Films' last venture, NAQAAB (2007), with the master of thrillers, Abbas-Mustan, starring Bobby Deol and Akshaye Khanna, failed at the box-office, it had and still has its fans. The failure of NAQAAB not withstanding, the Tauranis are back once again with their favourite director duo, Abbas-Mustan, in the big-budgeted multistarrer, RACE. As per Ramesh Taurani the budget of RACE is around 35 crores.

Not many will know this, but RACE was to start long back, September 2006 to be precise. However, lead actor Saif Ali Khan was absolutely booked at that point of time. Resultantly RACE was postponed and the dates were pushed further to accommodate the over committed Saif. In the meantime, Tips decided to make a quickie, a smaller budgeted film, NAQAAB with the same directors, Abbas-Mustan.

As the saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining and something good comes out of everything. And so it happened with the delay of RACE. The many narrations, the tying up of the loose ends and the excellent publicity have all resulted in hyping RACE to the sky. No wonder the producers, Ramesh and Kumar Taurani, and the distributors UTV are already smiling, as RACE has embarked on a super start.