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Vishal Bhardwaj has denied that he has signed Uma Thurman for his next International project (bummer)! "It's just not true," he says. The new project is will have both Indian and Foreign actors and is set in a foreign land. Matthew Robbins has penned the script.

Vishal revealed the details. "Matthew who wrote Spielberg's first feature film The Sugarland Express and also Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was in India for nearly two months. We spent a lot of time together. He saw my Omkara and recommended me to Francis Coppola for the additional shooting that I did for Coppola's under-production film."

Says Vishal, "We went off to Moussourri where we wrote out a musical. It's a musical unlike any musical in Bollywood. It takes the language of film music steps ahead of where it is."

Vishal plans to start shooting this film in the second-half of 2007. "The casting will begin soon. For me the musical format is very precious. I'm a musician at heart. And I became a filmmaker only so I could employ myself as a music director. Ironically today I'm getting more offers to do music than the time when I was only a music director. But for now I'll score music only in the films I make. The musical which I've written with Robbins is something that will give full vent to my aspirations as a music dire