''The Lovers'' (previously known as ''Singularity'', released in the UK as ''Time Traveller'' and in Belgium under the French title ''La Prophétie de l'anneau'') is a 2013 Belgian
romance
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Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
* Romance languages, ...
time travel
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adventure film written and directed by
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is a British director and producer of film and television, known for the Academy Award-winning films ''The Killing Fields'' and '' The Mission''. He began his career in television, his early credits inclu ...
from a story by Ajey Jhankar. The film stars
Josh Hartnett
Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and producer. He first came to attention in 1997 for his role as Michael Fitzgerald in the television crime drama series '' Cracker''. He made his feature film debut in 1998 in th ...
,
Indian
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Peoples South Asia
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actress
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu Singh Grover (born 7 January 1979) is an Indian actress and former model. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she has also appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and English films. Basu is the recipient of numerous accolades ...
in her only foreign film to date,
Alice Englert
Alice Allegra Englert (born 15 June 1994) is an Australian actress, director, writer, singer, and songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Rosa in the film ''Ginger & Rosa'' (2012) and Lena Duchannes in the film '' Beautiful Creatures'' ( ...
,
Tamsin Egerton
Tamsin Olivia Egerton (born Tamsin Olivia Egerton-Dick; 26 November 1988) is a British actress known for her roles as Chelsea Parker in the 2007 film '' St Trinian's'', Holly Goodfellow in the 2005 film ''Keeping Mum'', and Guinevere in the 2011 ...
and
Abhay Deol in lead roles. The film is the tale of an impossible romance set against the backdrop of the
first Anglo-Maratha war
The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) was the first of three Anglo-Maratha Wars fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India. The war began with the Treaty of Surat and ended with the Treaty of Salbai. The w ...
across two time periods and continents and centred on four characters—a British officer in 18th century
British India
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, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, and a 21st-century American marine archeologist and his wife.
Plot
In 2020, marine archeologist Jay Fennel (
Josh Hartnett
Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and producer. He first came to attention in 1997 for his role as Michael Fitzgerald in the television crime drama series '' Cracker''. He made his feature film debut in 1998 in th ...
) is brain-dead after trying to save his wife Laura (
Tamsin Egerton
Tamsin Olivia Egerton (born Tamsin Olivia Egerton-Dick; 26 November 1988) is a British actress known for her roles as Chelsea Parker in the 2007 film '' St Trinian's'', Holly Goodfellow in the 2005 film ''Keeping Mum'', and Guinevere in the 2011 ...
) who got trapped exploring the wreck of a colonial British
East Indiaman. The comatose Fennel dreams about the adventures of Captain James Stewart in 1778
Pune
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, and his romance with a
Maratha
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warrior Tulaja Naik (
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu Singh Grover (born 7 January 1979) is an Indian actress and former model. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she has also appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and English films. Basu is the recipient of numerous accolades ...
).
Cast
Production
''The Lovers'' was produced by Paul Breuls' Corsan NV, Dale G. Bradley's Limelight International Media Entertainment, Wei Han's Bliss Media and co-financed by Ajey Jhankar's Neelmudra Entertainment. Sales outfit Corsan World Sales, a division of Corsan NV, is handling international sales. Previously known as ''The Invaders'', the film was in works from the late 1990s and was due originally to feature Hollywood actors
Brendan Fraser
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and
Neve Campbell
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Following a series of minor ...
and
Bollywood
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actors
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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and
Vivek Oberoi
Vivek Anand Oberoi (born 3 September 1976) is an Indian actor who mainly works in Hindi cinema, in addition to working in few Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil films.
Early life
Vivek Oberoi was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, to a Pu ...
. The Anglo-Indian historical
romance
Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to:
Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
* Romance languages, ...
is
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu Singh Grover (born 7 January 1979) is an Indian actress and former model. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she has also appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and English films. Basu is the recipient of numerous accolades ...
's first English language film. She was encouraged to take up her international debut by actress
Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series '' Camp Wilder'' and made her film debut with a minor role in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1992 ...
. Basu first met up with Swank at the
New Seven Wonders of the World
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Official Declaration ceremony convened in
Lisbon in 2007 and met her again at the 2011
International Indian Film Academy Awards
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in
Toronto
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. Though originally planned for shooting partly in the
United Kingdom
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,
production began in
Queensland
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,
Australia, on 8 November 2010. It concluded there on the third week of December 2010.
The production then moved to
India
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on 31 March 2011 for a further five weeks, roaming the rocky terrain of
Chambal,
Orchha
Orchha is a town, near city of Niwari in Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh state, India. The town was established by rajput ruler Rudra Pratap Singh some time after 1501, as the seat of an eponymous former princely state of covering parts of c ...
and
Gwalior
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in the state of
Madhya Pradesh
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.
Principal photography
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Personnel
Besides the main film personnel, such as a ...
wrapped on 23 April 2011. The film was planned to premiere at the 65th annual
Cannes International Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
in May 2012, but in late 2011 the production company was placed in administration and all further filming was stopped when some ten percent remained. In June 2012, Belgian-based financing and production outfit Corsan agreed to put further money into the production, and the final scenes were to be shot in London. In September 2012, it was reported that the filming in London was finished, while some creditors were still waiting for payment. And in May 2013, producer Paul Breuls confirmed that the film has been finally completed and aims to launch it at an autumn festival.
Release
A preview trailer for the film premiered on 6 December 2011 at the 11th annual
Festival International du Film de Marrakech during a
master class
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"Masterclass" is als ...
given by
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is a British director and producer of film and television, known for the Academy Award-winning films ''The Killing Fields'' and '' The Mission''. He began his career in television, his early credits inclu ...
. In late April 2014, the production company Corsan announced that the film would be shown at the 67th annual
Cannes Film Festival
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on 15 May 2014 under the new name ''The Lovers''. The film was released on DVD in the UK as ''Time Traveller'' in 2016.
References
External links
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International Sales(Corsan World Sales)
Production(Bliss Media)
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