EXCLUSIVE: Laal Singh Chaddha is all set to release on 11th August. While the actors as well as the entire team is busy in promoting their film, by either coming on Koffee with Karan or interacting with media personnel’s, the team is working in full swing to make this project a success!
But very few are aware of the fact that Atul Kulkarni, who is presently the screenwriter of Laal Singh Chaddha, Had also worked with Aamir as an actor in Rang de Basanti, and recently made a shocking revelation, that initially Aamir wasn’t even interested in reading this adaption (That’s Right)
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Atul Revels
So Laal Singh Chaddha is an adaption of the classic Forrest Gump for the Indian audience. And it was during promotions Atul shared on how the process behind Laal Singh Chaddha started out of nowhere in 2008 and he completed the script within 14-15 days. He then approached Aamir Khan to read it, but the latter wasn’t very much interested. “First two years, Aamir didn’t read the script. It’s not that we were not meeting or we weren’t in touch. All the time, he would say, ‘haan padhte hain (yes we will do a reading)”.
Atul added further, “After a couple of years, I asked him when will we read. And then said let me confess something. He said, ‘you are not a writer and you tell me you have written a Forrest Gump adaptation in 15 days. You are a close friend and I don’t want to disappoint you by saying you have written very badly’. That’s why he wasn’t listening to the script.”
Soon after that, Atul did try to convince Aamir to give His script a reading by saying he didn’t care if Aamir ‘trashed’ the script after the reading. And as it turns out, Aamir liked it so much he decided to not just act in but also produce the film. But the delays weren’t over. Atul says the next decade was spent in getting the rights of Forrest Gump.
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And now here we are, the film all set to hit the theatres!
Laal Singh Chaddha also stars Kareena Kapoor, Mona Singh, and Naga Chaitanya. The film, produced by Aamir Khan Productions, Kiran Rao, and Viacom18 Studios
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