Sharon Stone likely to be part of film on Buddha 04th Oct 2004
22.00 IST
By ApunKaChoice Bureau
Hollywood star Sharon Stone and a number of other celebrities, including Richard Gere, are likely to be part of a film based on teachings of lord Buddha.
The yet-to-be-titled movie will be a Rs.2.5 billion project to be directed by Shekhar Kapoor . The movie will incorporate special inputs from Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and self-help guru Deepak Chopra.
Although the movie will have Indian actors in the leading roles, a good number of Hollywood celebrities – Gere, Stone, Melissa Mathison and Goldie Hawn – will be associated with the project in some way. Stone and Gere are also likely to act in the movie.
The film will be partly shot in India, but post-production work would be done in Hollywood.
The project is backed by industrialist B.K. Modi, who is also the president of the over century-old Buddhist society -- Mahabodhi Society of India.
The movie would be made in English, but parts of it could be in Hindi, in Japanese, and other languages too.