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Kareena Kapoor to play Paro in Sudhir
Mishra's "Shakespeare style" Devdas?
Avant-garde director Sudhir Mishra
is about to start his dream project.
For years he has nurtured the dream
of doing his own take on
Saratchandra Chatterjee's classic
Bengali novel Devdas , the ageless
tale of love loyalty and betrayal and
self-destruction that has been
treated in various eras by directors
as diverse as Bimal Roy, Sanjay Leela
Bhansali and Anurag Kashyap.
Sudhir's take on Devdas has been
ready for eight years. He has now re-
written the script and the film which
goes on the floors shortly would be
titled Har Khwahish Pe Dum Nikle .
Interestingly Sudhir intends to cast
Kareena Kapoor in his film. Kareena
and Sudhir Mishra had generated a
sterling synthesis in Chameli. They
were all set to come together again
two years ago in Dhruv , the project
to be produced by Farhan Akhtar
and Ritesh Sidhavani with Farhan
and Kareena in the lead.
But the film got shelved.
When contacted Sudhir said, "Yes, I
am making Har Khwahish Pe Dum
Nikle next. I was actually finalizing
another script as my next film. But I
got stuck in it mid-way. So I looked
at this other script which I had been
nurturing for years. The time for
doing my Devdas is now. As for the
cast, it's too early to talk about
whom I am will cast."
Sudhir says his take on Devdas
would be distinctly Shakespearean.
"In fact it would be more
Shakespeare than Saratchandra,"
admits Sudhir.
Har Khwahish Pe Dum Nikle has an
interesting history. Sudhir Mishra
initially planned to direct it for
producer Pritish Nandy with Shiney
Ahuja, Chitrangda and Lara Dutta as
Devdas, Chandramukhi and Paro,
respectively. The project later moved
to Farhan under the title Dhruv with
Farhan and Kareena in the lead.
Now Sudhir says he is all set to
finally make the film.
"I have to get it out of my system.
It's been swimming in my
subconscious for too long," says
Sudhir.
Incidentally Kareena was at one
point, to be cast as Paro in Sanjay
Leela Bhansali's Devdas .
Mishra's "Shakespeare style" Devdas?
Avant-garde director Sudhir Mishra
is about to start his dream project.
For years he has nurtured the dream
of doing his own take on
Saratchandra Chatterjee's classic
Bengali novel Devdas , the ageless
tale of love loyalty and betrayal and
self-destruction that has been
treated in various eras by directors
as diverse as Bimal Roy, Sanjay Leela
Bhansali and Anurag Kashyap.
Sudhir's take on Devdas has been
ready for eight years. He has now re-
written the script and the film which
goes on the floors shortly would be
titled Har Khwahish Pe Dum Nikle .
Interestingly Sudhir intends to cast
Kareena Kapoor in his film. Kareena
and Sudhir Mishra had generated a
sterling synthesis in Chameli. They
were all set to come together again
two years ago in Dhruv , the project
to be produced by Farhan Akhtar
and Ritesh Sidhavani with Farhan
and Kareena in the lead.
But the film got shelved.
When contacted Sudhir said, "Yes, I
am making Har Khwahish Pe Dum
Nikle next. I was actually finalizing
another script as my next film. But I
got stuck in it mid-way. So I looked
at this other script which I had been
nurturing for years. The time for
doing my Devdas is now. As for the
cast, it's too early to talk about
whom I am will cast."
Sudhir says his take on Devdas
would be distinctly Shakespearean.
"In fact it would be more
Shakespeare than Saratchandra,"
admits Sudhir.
Har Khwahish Pe Dum Nikle has an
interesting history. Sudhir Mishra
initially planned to direct it for
producer Pritish Nandy with Shiney
Ahuja, Chitrangda and Lara Dutta as
Devdas, Chandramukhi and Paro,
respectively. The project later moved
to Farhan under the title Dhruv with
Farhan and Kareena in the lead.
Now Sudhir says he is all set to
finally make the film.
"I have to get it out of my system.
It's been swimming in my
subconscious for too long," says
Sudhir.
Incidentally Kareena was at one
point, to be cast as Paro in Sanjay
Leela Bhansali's Devdas .
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