After Madhuri Dixit backed out from the project on personal grounds, Indian origin US filmmaker Krishna Shah is now considering casting Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra in the lead role in a biopic on late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Priyanka Chopra will take over Madhuri Dixit’s lead role filmmaker Krishna Shah’s film titled 'Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story'. Madhuri could not do the movie because of her mother-in-law's illness.
Shah is working on the casting with Academy Award winning make-up artiste Jenny Shircore. After going through the photographs of many Indian actresses, Shircore believed that Priyanka was the only Bollywood actress whom she can make look like Indira Gandhi after some prosthetic work on her face.
Shah told the media: “Yes, I am in conversation with Jenny who thinks that Priyanka is the one who can fit in the character of Indira, but it will be too premature to talk about casting as we have not approached anybody as yet.” Shah is reportedly also in conversation with other actors like Albert Finney, Emily Watson, Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones to play other characters in the film.
The script of the movie is not yet final and has also undergone several changes. “The script has been reworked after I got my hands on Richard Nixon's personal tapes related to the 1971 Bangladesh War. My research has changed the script a lot and now we are looking at casting an appropriate face for Indira Gandhi's character.” added Shah.
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