23, but suffered a dismal opening according to. Known as "Speedy Singhs" outside of Canada, "Breakaway" hit 600 theatres in India on Sept. And that's what I love about Canada, that a brown kid like you can be the next Youngblood!"' Lowe, I'm Vinay Virmani, I'm going to play Rajveer Singh.' And he just gave me a big hug right away and he said: 'Ah, you know, this is a homecoming for me man, because 20 years ago I did 'Youngblood' here and you're just where I was. "I was a little bit nervous and I saw him skating out on the ice. "I shot about six hours of hockey in the afternoon, (and then) I was going to do this big dramatic scene with Rob," recalled Virmani, who also co-wrote the script. Virmani said he was awestruck the first time he met Lowe on set, noting that the Hollywood star once played a hockey prospect much like Rajveer in 1986's "Youngblood." Meanwhile, Canadian comic superstar Russell Peters turns up as a wisecracking Wall Street hotshot poised to marry into the Singh family. The film's global aspirations are bolstered by cameos from Indian stars Akshay Kumar (who also executive produced the film) and Anupam Kher ("Bend It Like Beckham"), and rap stars Drake and Ludacris.
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"I was interested in seeing what a hybrid would look like and that's what this movie really is," Lowe said. He also has a lovely sister, who inspires colourful Bollywood fantasies in the lovestruck Rajveer. Lowe plays the rink manager and the team's coach, but his character also happens to be an ex-NHLer with a few hard-won lessons up his sleeve. When the local amateur team rejects him despite a stellar on-ice performance, Rajveer forms his own team with his South Asian pals and they make a bid for the championships. Rajveer Singh, played by newcomer Vinay Virmani, is more interested in hanging out at the community rink than working at his uncle's trucking company. The twist here is that the on-ice star is an Indo-Canadian kid struggling to assert his independence from overbearing immigrant parents. The Toronto-shot "Breakaway" treads familiar Canuck ground by revolving around an underdog hockey phenom.
"And as a businessman, as I've started to transition into that area, I was really interested in the Bollywood business and I thought this would be a good way to learn." "I was really interested in the theme of assimilation and what it means to belong and in terms of fathers and sons, what it means to break that bond and go your own way," Lowe said of the coming-of-age tale when it debuted at the recent Toronto International Film Festival. Lowe says it's a big reason he appears in the Indo-Canadian hockey film, "Breakaway," an amalgam of Bollywood and sports movie tropes that hits theatres around the world this weekend.
The veteran actor says his new role as part owner of the vast Miramax film library has him scouting for money-making productions that could involve partnering with Canadian and foreign filmmakers. Now, he's intent on becoming a movie mogul.
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TORONTO - Rob Lowe has been a pin-up boy, a movie idol, a TV star and - most recently - a bestselling author.
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