Saif Ali Khan to star as Count of Monte Cristo
Saif Ali Khan to star in a desi adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo.
Alexandre Dumas's 1844 literary classic, The Count of Monte Cristo, has anchored on Bollywood shores after numerous international adaptations.
The story of a wronged man, who unearths a treasure on his way to revenge and true love, will be directed by Abbas-Mustan and produced by Sunir Kheterpal of Azure Entertainment.
A source close to the developments said, "Saif Ali Khan will be playing a businessman in this film. There will be two heroines opposite him; one will be a younger actress and another six years older than him."
Kheterpal confirmed the news saying, "Yes, we are working on an adaptation of the novel with Saif in the lead. The revenge drama is right up Abbas-Mustan's alley. The film is still untitled and will release in 2015."
Mustan added that film will not be an outand-out adaptation as the story and screenplay are their own and different from that of the novel's.
"We gave Saif a one-and-a-half hour narration before he left for Mauritius for the shoot of Humshakals. He liked it and after he returned we met him with a bound script," says the filmmaker who's waiting for the actor to return to Mumbai from Phantom's Chandigarh schedule, to work out the film's details.
The director duo has worked with the actor earlier in Main Khiladi Tu Anari and the Race franchise. But as Mustan points out, the first one was a two-hero film with Akshay Kumar and in Race and Race 2 too he shared the screen with two heroes- Akshaye Khanna and Anil Kapoor in the first and Anil and John Abraham in the second.
"This is a solo hero project. Tentatively, we should roll in October, after Phantom opens on October 2. But there could be a two-three months time lag," Mustan says. .
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