Beatles Raaz
Beatle Paul McCartney had a secret dekko of Raaz in Mumbai early on this year. As also on IndiaFM. Sheesh! Here's a screamer reproduced from Google's cache of a page on Andhra Update:


Nothing can be more difficult than trying to entertain the world's greatest entertainer. And sure it is a tall task if one has to entertain former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney.

After holidaying in the sun-kissed beaches of Kerala's Coconut Lagoon with fiancée Heather Mills, the two spent two nights in Mumbai.

On January 20, the two stepped out quietly from their presidential suite at the Taj and went over for a special screening of Vikram Bhatt's Raaz. And that indeed was an experience worth cherishing for Mahesh Bhatt, the man who has been involved in the making of the film.

Raaz, which is being presented by Tips films and Mahesh Bhatt, deals with the paranormal, meant not just to woo the NRI audience. This "supernatural thriller" will be released soon.

While in the city on Wednesday for promo of the film, Bhatt recalled the experience of watching the special screening with McCartney. "I had met Paul once earlier. At 10.30 on Sunday night, we went over to a private theatre in Bandra to watch a special screening of Raaz. And mind you, this was the first Hindi film that Paul was watching till the very end.

Earlier he had just watched snippets on television. The fast paced narrative of Raaz impressed him. Heather was dazzled by the visual sophistication. Unfortunately, we don't have any photographs of him watching the film. Actually, Paul is very shy and secretive," he said.

But how did Sir Paul McCartney respond to a Hindi psycho-thriller? After all, the film doesn't have subtitles. "I was translating and explaining certain portions. Dino was also there. Paul was responding to the film like a child. He could follow the body language and he liked the generous use of English words in the film."

Incidentally, the catchline for Raaz "Do you want to know a secret?" is also taken from a Beatles number. It was penned by John Lennon. But what about the music? Nadeem, specially, was "flabbergasted" when he heard the news that McCartney had liked the music. Bhatt recalled, "I saw him tapping his foot and enjoying the score." Sure Nadeem Shravan wouldn't need any further complements for their score.

And what about Bipasha Basu, the star whom Bhatt describes as a "spectacular talent to walk in to the portals of Hindi cinema"? Bipasha, incidentally, wasn't present during the screening.

"When I called up Bipasha in Goa I asked her to guess who was watching her film. I told her, 'Bipasha it is Paul McCartney, I repeat Sir Paul McCartney, who was at the screening'. Paul even said that Bipasha looks like Sophia Loren!" Is Dino Morea, who plays Bipasha's husband in the film, blushing?


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