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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bollywood megastar
Amitabh Bachchan and his celebrity family
members have all tentatively agreed to take part in a film based on the life of
Bangladesh's founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, local media said on Thursday.
Amitabh will take the role of Mujib in the film, named "The Poet of Politics,"
while his son Abhishek Bachchan will act in the role of a young Mujib, Abdul
Gaffar Chowdhury, the producer of the film, told ANA, a U.S.-based
Bangladeshi news agency.
The ANA report, published in several Dhaka dailies on Thursday, said
Chowdhury, an expatriate Bangladeshi journalist and newspaper columnist,
also told the news agency that Amitabh's daughter-in-law and former Miss
Universe, Aishwarya Rai, and renowned actress Shabana Azmi will also act in
two key roles.
Shyam Benegal, the only director to won India's National Film Award for Best
Feature Film in Hindi five times, will direct the movie.
"After getting the consent of Amitabh, I am now a relieved man. To project a
person of the magnitude of Bangabandhu (Sheikh Mujib), I could not imagine
no one other than him," Chowdhury was quoted as saying in New York.
"Now not only Amitabh, his other family members have also agreed to take up
the challenge," added Chowdhury.
It was not clear when Chowdhury will start shooting the film, which will be
made in English and dubbed into Bengali, Hindi and other languages.
Mujib led Bangalis to an independence struggle in 1971, which resulted in the
independence of former East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
Mujib was killed, along with most of his family, in a 1975 coup.
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| Ash Abhishek Sign on Another Film Together |
First it was Ram Gopal Verma with his Sarkar Raj, which will see the husband wife duo of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan come together on screen for the first time after their marriage. Then there is Mani Ratnam's next being planned with the two in mind. However, it seems that there is yet another film being planned with the two in the lead. The director in question is believed to be none other than Rajiv Menon, who had directed Ash in the film Kandukondain based on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, decades ago. Apparently he will now direct Ash and her hubby in a romantic story, the music of which is expected to be composed by A.R. Rahman. The film's shooting, however, will only begin next year as Ash has a busy schedule ahead of her. She has to finish work on Ratnam's film and also shoot for Robot, director Shankar's film opposite Rajnikant. It is believed that Menon had narrated his story idea to the couple during the shoot of Guru and they had liked it a lot. Hence they had no qualms about signing on the dotted liner once the script was ready. |
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