Amitabh Bachchan will not be a part of the big-budget period film Randoomzham, which stars Malayalam actor Mohanlal. Earlier, some media outlets had reported that Bachchan had been roped in to play the role of Bhishma.
Now however, a spokesperson for Amitabh Bachchan has issued a statement, as reported by the Indian Express, saying “We would like to deny this news and state that Mr Bachchan is in no capacity associated with or a part of the above-mentioned film directed by Mr Sreekumar. Any news or story reporting otherwise is false and incorrect.”
Director Sreekumar had initially told the Times of India that Bachchan was a part of the project. He had said, “We aren’t taking any cinematic liberties with the character for the movie, he will be playing the role as it is in the book.” Randoomazham is the cinema adaption of prolific writer, MT Vasudevan Nair’s book which goes by the same name.
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Thus far, there has been no statement from Mohanlal and Sreekumar.
Randamoozham will be a multilingual film made on a budget of approximately Rs. 700 crores. It will be shot in Malayalam, Tamil, English, and Hindi, and dubbed into other Indian languages. Sreekumar Menon and the production team are putting together a star cast from several film industries, as well as a technical crew comprising of Academy Award winning technicians.
Mohanlal plays the lead role of Bhima.
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