Former beauty queen and Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen will be enacting the role of Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a biopic to be made by Pakistani filmmakers.
Bhutto was assassinated Dec 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
“Yes, I am keen to play the role. The producers are waiting for a clearance from the Pakistan Peoples Party (Bhutto’s party). Once we get the go-ahead, we will start the movie,” Sushmita had earlier told reporters.
Sushmita is reportedly working hard to get into her character by reading extensively on the life of Bhutto and watching footages on her. She is simultaneously working on her Urdu diction as well.
Co-produced by Pakistani producers Zaid Aziz and Henna Rai of Karachi production firm Vox Vision and Leicester-based Sum Films respectively, the film will be bilingual – made both in English and Urdu.
Tentatively titled Benazir Bhutto: The Movie, it will be shot at various locations in Pakistan, the US, Britain and Dubai, where Bhutto spent years as a student and later as a political leader in exile.
Apparently, Mahesh Bhatt’s Vishesh Films is also battling out to make a biopic on the leader.
Stay tuned in!
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Wasn`t Aish the one who should play Benazir?
@Mariam – Yes. There are news about Aishwarya also playing the same role in a different movie.
All I can say at this point of time is…let’s wait n watch!
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Jus looking forward for the movie..Hope she shows her talent to the world,,with this movie. GUd Luck Sush.!