The Indian film actor Amitabh Bachchan will soon be seen playing the character of a slum soccer founder Vijay Barse in his upcoming movie. Amitabh earlier played the doppelganger of Bal Thackeray in Ram Gopal Varma’s movie “Sarkar”, which was an Indian Indian political crime thriller movie. It was written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The movie features Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role, Abhishek Bachchan, Shankar Nagre, Kay Kay Menon, Katrina Kaif, Anupam Kher, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Supriya Pathak and Tanisha Mukherjee. The movie ‘Sarkar’, which is said to be inspired from The Godfather. The movie was archived at the American Academy of Motion Pictures library.
According to the latest reports, Amitabh Bachchan is all set to play another real life character on the silver screen. The movie will be directed by the Sairat’s fame director Nagaraj Manjules. Vijay Barse established the Nagpur based NGO slum soccers in which he helps poor kids to find their bearings from the game of football. However, the name of the movie has not been finalised yet.
Director Nagaraj says that he is more than happy to speak about his adulation for Amitabh Bachchan. He says that they will start shooting the film from this October.
However, he says that the movie is based on the real life incident, but he has written some parts of the movie so now it moves very far away from the original. Director Nagaraj Manjules says that he is been writing the script of the movie from a last good two years and before that he was researching on the subject. Nagaraj says, “I don’t mind spending time on my script. I spent a good 8 years on the script of Sairat. I wrote it with only Bachchan Saab in mind. I’ve been his fan from childhood. He added, “I grew up copying his clothes, speech, and mannerisms from Majboor and Deewaar. I’d go to school with my shirt tied like Bachchan Saab in ‘Deewaar’ and get severely reprimanded by my teachers. But the punishment had no effect on me. I’d still do it.”
When Nagaraj made a self-confessed that he is an Amitabh Bachchan’s bhakt and when he finally met him he somehow managed to control his adulation. He says that he managed to remain calm, restrained and dignified in front of the superstar. He says, “I actually wanted to jump out of my seat and dance around him. But I narrated my script in an even tone. I am happy I did that. I didn’t want to come across as just a fan. Of course, I am a fan for a lifetime. And someday when I complete my film with him I’ll tell him how much effort it took me to not gush and rave when I met him for the first time.”
The director just wants to focus on making a good film with Amitabh and he says that he did not feel burdened by the responsibility of living up to Sairat, but he confesses that yes he wants the audience to say that he made a good picture again.