Cinematography legend Amir Mokri watches ‘Blue’ in LA

MUMBAI - When Iranian cinematography legend Amir Mokri saw “Blue” on the Clint Eastwood Recording Sound Stage No. 6 at the Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, director Anthony (Tony) D’Souza, a self-confessed and unabashed fan of Mokri’s work, played a little game with him.

Tony quietly let his precious film unfold for his favourite cinematographer Oct 9 and waited for him to recognise the sequence that Tony had shot as per instruction from Mokri in LA. Of course, Mokri immediately recognised the sequence whose shots were copied from “Bad Boys 2″ which Mokri had photographed.

Of course Amir recognised the shots immediately. I had seen the way actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence zigzagged through windows and doors for a particular sequence in ‘Bad Boys 2′. I wanted to use those shots for a sequence between Sanjay Sir (Dutt) and Lara Dutta in ‘Blue’. I got in touch with Mokri and he instructed me and my cameraman on phone and email on how to go about doing the shots in a way that the camera seems to be hurling at the same speed as the characters. I think we got it right. Amir seemed to think so,” Tony said.

Though Tony isn’t saying it, Mokri liked “Blue” enough to now be a part of Tony’s next film, the aerial actioner with Akshay Kumar and John Abraham.

The news is Mokri would do the camerawork for that film.