January 14th, 2009
‘Rang de Basanti’ came and won hearts three years back.It took Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra three years to put together ‘Delhi 6′.
Now that the movie is almost ready, his RDB star Aamir Khan is high up on his wish list as he thinks about his next film.
And this movie is about the life of legendary actor-producer-director Guru Dutt.
Reportedly the untitled movie has been scripted by Nasreen Munni Kabir, who has also written the book ‘Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema’.
Mehra wants to start the movie by the end of the year, but things can be confirmed only after concrete talks with Aamir Khan
The actor is currently working in Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘3 Idiots’ and his wife Kiran Rao’s ‘Dhobi Ghat’. And everyone knows how particular Aamir is about the subject, the script and other things related to his movies
He’s also handling his home productions ‘Delhi Belly’ directed by Abhinay Deo and a film on farmers’ suicides.
Incidentally, Guru Dutt’s ‘Kaagaz ke Phool’ was itself a semi-autobiographical with him as a failed filmmaker and dealing with his relationship with his wife as well as the woman he loved. The black-and-white film flopped when it was first released in 1959 but later managed to get classic status.
