Recent reports suggest that the Raees star Shah Rukh Khan has started his preparations for a role as an Urdu poet. Earlier, Sanjay Leela Bhansali announced his ambitious project based on the life of Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi. The Padmavati director found his leading man in Shah Rukh Khan. This will be the duo’s second outing together after their magnus opus ‘Devdas‘ in 2002.
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As per a report in The Indian Express, “Bhansali and SRK met last week and the filmmaker handed over the complete script of the biopic to SRK, telling him that he would like to direct him in 2018. There is a lot of poetry in the film and SRK has been reading Sahir’s ghazals and nazms.”
The movie has been titled Gustakhiyaan and will focus on the poet’s relationship with Punjabi writer and poetess, Amrita Pritam and singer Sudha Malhotra.
Here’s hoping to see the duo deliver their second blockbuster.