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Amitabh Bachchan denies playing role of Bangladeshi leader
03rd May 2008 23.00 IST
By Agencies

Bollywood mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan today denied he has given nod to play the role of Mujibur Rehman, the founding father of Bangladesh, in an English movie.

"Its the first time that I hear all this and obviously negate it, but they (media in London) were persistent. The media told me that the person producing it (the film) has confirmed your participation, Mr. Bachchan! Well Mr. Bachchan has not heard of it yet," he remarked in Mumbai.

A report quoting a New York-based Bangladesh news agency had said Bachchan has agreed to play the role of Mujib in 'The Poet of politics' named after the title given to the Bangladeshi leader by the 'Time' magazine in the early 1970s on its cover story.

The agency said Big B's actor-son Abhishek Bachchan would essay the role of a young Mujib while his daughter-in-law and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai and noted actress Shabana Azmi were also assigned key roles in the film.

According to the report, veteran director Shyam Benegal would direct the movie which is to be made in English and subsequently dubbed in Bengali, Hindi among other languages.

The Eastern News Agency (ENA) report said Bachchan recently gave his nod to the producer, expatriate Bangladeshi journalist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhary, who was trying to cast the megastar in the over Rs 11-crore budget film.

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