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Unfortunately I missed the trailer of Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Talisman which claims to be a Desi ‘The Lord of the Rings’ . Here is IndiaFm's report on the trailer:

Talisman is a fantasy film about two lovers and three aiyaar (an aiyaar is a character from Indian mythology who could change his form to anything that he desired).

The trailer shows a battlefield flooded with soldiers on horses who are just waiting for one indication from their leader to go ahead on the war or back out. Only one person has the power to stop the war – Talisman. Of course it has to be Amitabh Bachchan.

Bachchan’s Talisman look is evidently inspired from Ian MacKellen’s character of Gandalf from the Hollywood extravaganza ‘The Lord of the Rings’. In a white robe and with long white hair-locks, he is riding a white horse and guiding a battalion of soldiers. One vertical half of his face is covered with a mask. And while you expect a mythological touch to a fantasy set in India, you are surprised when Amitabh speaks in English shouting out ‘No War’ to the soldiers. Is the film contemporary? Is it mythological? Or perhaps a timeless fantasy? Only time will tell.

Apart from Bachchan, the major portion of the trailer is digitally developed and enhanced with special effects. The film is intentionally given a blue colour theme throughout. Interestingly the text font of ‘Talisman’ used in the trailer is directly derived from the font of ‘Harry Potter’ series from Hollywood.