Shah Rukh Khan to be Sahir Ludhianvi in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's next?

 

As per a popular tabloid, SRK and SLB will be working together for the second time in Urdu poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi's biopic. After offering the role to Irrfan and Fawad Khan, it has landed finally into King Khan's kitty. The premise of the film revolves around Sahir Ludhianvi's relationship with poetess-novelist Amrita Pritam before he went on to court singer-actress Sudha Malhotra.

 

There were rumours that Priyanka Chopra is in the competition to play Amrita and then Deepika Padukone joined the race too. But, all rumours were put to rest when Bhansali announced Padmavati.

 

Now, he has finalised Shah Rukh to play Sahir on the big screen. Talking about it, a source close to the development stated, "Bhansali and SRK met late one night last week and the filmmaker handed over the complete script of the biopic to SRK, telling him that he would like to direct him in 2018."

 

They further stated, "There is a lot of poetry in the film and SRK has been reading Sahir's ghazals and nazms. Bhansali and SRK have been spending a lot of time together lately, discussing work and cinema."

 

Are you excited to see Shah Rukh Khan and Sanjay Leela Bhansali team up again?