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on 2007/3/16 23:01:44
The aging Indian actor, Amitabh Bachchan, is all set to play the role of King Lear in an upcoming Bollywood film, tentatively named The Last Lear or Curtain Call at the age of 64.
Bachchan -- whose latest film Eklavya, in which he plays a royal guard, was praised by British actor Ralph Fiennes for its Shakespearean edge -- has acted in more than 150 films over the past three decades.
The film, which is to be directed by Rituparno Ghosh, examines the friction that has always existed between theater and cinema. The upcoming film will be Bachchan's first all-English film and he will play a fading theater actor who gets a film offer.
The film, based on Utpal Dutt's Bengali play, also stars Preity Zinta , Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah, and Arjun Rampal. --Reena Rana
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