Bollywood beauty Bipasha Basu is all set to romance'Pearl Harbor'star Josh Hartnett in her first international film'Singularity'.Set in different time periods and directed by Roland Joffe, famous for his movies'City of Joy','The Killing Fields 'and' Captivity', the new film will see Bipasha playing an Indian she-warrior, named Tulaja.
The script has been written by Ajey Jhankar and other than Bipasha and Abhay Deol, the movie has a host of international stars including'Star Treck'actor Chris Pine, Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and Christopher Egan among others.
Bipasha will fly to Brisbane soon to rehearse with Hartnett and then start filming from 3rd week of November through last week of December, a statement said.
Joffe was in India in September for the casting of the epic romance and plans to shoot a major portion of the film in the country since the story revolves around Marathas in 1780s.
The movie traces an impossible love set across two time periods and continents centered around four characters a British officer in colonial India, the Indian woman he falls in love with, an American marine biologist and his lover, who is a researcher trapped in a wrecked British merchant ship. Only the power of a ring can transcend time and save a life.
Joffe, who captured the life of Kolkata's slums in'City of Joy'starring Shabana Azmi, Patrick Swayze and Om Puri, hopes to release the film by next year.
Paul Breuls'Belgian production is producing the film while Corsan World Sales is handling international sales. Anchor Bay holds the distribution rights for the US, UK and Australia.
Earlier, Aishwarya Rai was rumoured to star in the USD 33 million project.
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