Currently Amitabh Bachchan is filming for Prakash Jha’s Satyagraha.
Highlights
- After doing a short film together, megastar Amitabh Bachchan and acclaimed filmmaker Anurag Kashyap are now joining hands for a yet untitled full-length feature film.
- It is being produced under the Phantom Films banner.
- The film, to go on floors early 2014, is a thriller with an ensemble cast with Amitabh in the lead role.
- The 70-year-old veteran is all praises for Anurag Kashyap, known for movies like Dev D and Gangs of Wasseypur.
- "I am delighted to be working with Anurag, a director, who has through his rugged belief in his kind of cinema, compelled us to fall in line with him. I have a general concept of the story and anxiously wait for him to begin shooting," Amitabh Bachchan said in a statement.
- Anurag Kashyap too is "thrilled" about the collaboration.
- "Like everyone, I have also been a fan of Mr Bachchan from my growing-up years. Though I wanted to make a film with him for the longest time, I wanted to be sure that the role is something he has never done before. While working on the short film with him, I got this idea, which we discussed and he agreed," he said.
After doing a short film together, megastar Amitabh Bachchan and acclaimed filmmaker Anurag Kashyap are now joining hands for a yet untitled full-length feature film.
It is being produced under the Phantom Films banner.
The film, to go on floors early 2014, is a thriller with an ensemble cast with Amitabh in the lead role.
The 70-year-old veteran is all praises for Anurag Kashyap, known for movies like
Dev D and
Gangs of Wasseypur.
"I am delighted to be working with Anurag, a director, who has through his rugged belief in his kind of cinema, compelled us to fall in line with him. I have a general concept of the story and anxiously wait for him to begin shooting," Amitabh Bachchan said in a statement.
Anurag Kashyap too is "thrilled" about the collaboration.
"Like everyone, I have also been a fan of Mr Bachchan from my growing-up years. Though I wanted to make a film with him for the longest time, I wanted to be sure that the role is something he has never done before. While working on the short film with him, I got this idea, which we discussed and he agreed," he said.