New Delhi: Brad Pitt is one of the better known and seen Hollywood actors in India. In fact, many Bollywood films refer to him in various sequences. Normally, he is associated with slightly rough and tough characters with an urban background. Though he has been featured in rustic and raw roles but playing a gangster will not be easy for him mainly because of his heavily established image and partly because of his cheeky one liners that he flaunts in almost every film.
Directed by Andrew Dominik, the film also stars McNairy and Richard Jenkins in prominent roles.
The film has been adapted from George V Higgins' novel and New Orleans will be seen as the background of the story.
‘Killing Them Softly’ takes place in a city which has borne the brunt of the financial collapse, houses are abandoned, shops are shuttered and petty criminals and mobsters alike are struggling to get by.
Brad Pitt plays ruthless assassin Jackie Cogan, brought in by a syndicate of mafia bosses to eliminate a group of thieves who raid a high-stakes poker game.
The title derives from his insistence on avoiding unnecessary pain and suffering when he carries out his killings.
It features gangster movie mainstays Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini, and reunites Pitt with New Zealand-born director Andrew Dominik after the two collaborated on ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’.
After the film’s screening at the Cannes Film Festival, Brad Pitt had said that he did not want ‘Killing Them Softly’ to be seen as an attack on President Obama.
"I lean more towards the left and I want to understand my own bias and so I am not opposed to characters that have different views from yourself," he said.
Indian audiences would love to see Brad Pitt giving a new dimension to on-screen assassins. (With inputs from Reuters)
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