SAIF to play JAWAHARLAL NEHRU?!!!!!!!!!!

Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha is currently in New Delhi [ Images ] on a clandestine trip to research on her next project, which will be based on the months before the Partition of India [ Images ] in 1947.

While the cast and other details are yet to be finalised, we learn that Saif Ali Khan [ Images] is the most likely contender for the role of Jawaharlal Nehru [ Images ]. However, the film's central character is Lord Mountbatten, and his final months in India.

Last week, Gurinder became the first filmmaker to get a bird's eye view of the entire Rashtrapati Bhavan [ Images ]. Apparently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] and his wife invited Gurinder, who hails from Punjab [ Images ], into their home so that she could portray her Partition film truthfully.

"Gurinder's film needs to recreate the Rashtrapati Bhavan, since a lot of it is shot within its premise. Obviously, she can't shoot inside the real Rashtrapati Bhavan but she got a special invitation from the Prime Minister and his wife to visit it," says a source.

Apparently, the director has been a friend of the Prime Minister's wife Gursharan Kaur for some time now.

"Gurinder met the Prime Minister through Mrs Manmohan Singh," says a source. "They hit it off as they hail from the same part of Punjab. Gurinder is currently on a trip to rediscover her roots. She wants her two kids, twins Ronak and Komiko, to learn Punjabi. In fact, Gurinder's new film will have a lot of Punjabi dialogues and songs. She also met Punjabi singer Rabbi Gill in Delhi this week."

Source: Rediff 👏