Rajkummar Rao and Myra in Raj Kumar Gupta's Revolution 2020?
Priya Gupta,TNN | Apr 23, 2014, 12.00 AM IST
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As per the book, the story has three main characters " Gopal, Raghav and Aarti. Gopal and Raghav are childhood friends. Gopal loves Aarti right from his childhood. But his love is unrequited when she falls in love with Raghav. Gopal is poor and does not manage to get through a top college due to his low grades, but manages to build an engineering college with the help of an influential and corrupt MLA Shuklaji and becomes rich. Meanwhile, Raghav after graduating from a top college, works as a journalist and campaigns for social change, exposing scams including the educational institution by Gopal built with the help of the corrupt MLA Shuklaji.
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While in the book, we know who Aarti chooses finally between Raghav and Gopal, we will wait to see the adapted story in Raj Kumar Gupta's film. We have learnt that National award-winning actor of Shahid and one of the current favourites Rajkummar Rao has been chosen to play Gopal, while Myra, who earlier played Jessica's character in Raj Kumar Gupta's No One Killed Jessica, will be playing Aarti. We will, of course, continue tracking who plays Raghav.
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