'Provoked' director Jagmohan Mundhra is all set to start shooting his much-publicised biopic of Congress President Sonia Gandhi this September. Monica Bellucci has a striking similarity with the facial demeanour of the enigmatic Congress leader who relinquished the post of Prime Minister amidst tremendous drama in the year 2004. Mundhra plans to shoot on the actual locations linked to Sonia's life in Italy, Cambridge and New Delhi.
Currently Mundhra is in London to get the pre-production in order; apart from finalizing the cast. He has a meeting lined up with Bollywood's answer to Brad Pitt, Zayed Khan who in all probability may play the contentious role of Sanjay Gandhi while Sanjay Suri is most probably the final choice of playing the gentle-n-affable Rajiv Gandhi. As regards the film's other pivotal character of Indira Gandhi, Mundhra is planning to cast acclaimed theatre actress Shernaz Patel (Rani Mukherjee's mother in 'Black')
The important players like Amitabh Bachchan and Maneka Gandhi have been relegated to bit roles as Mundhra obviously doesn't want to un-ruffle feathers of goodwill. It was earlier stated that Abhishek Bachchan may be penciled in to enact his father's part, but now there's no urgency to search for a high profile actor. Mundhra is also scouting for an actress to play the younger version of Sonia as Monica herself wants to play Sonia only from 30 to 55 years.
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