GUSTAKHIYAN : SANJAY LEELA BHANSALY's next after PADMAVATI

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Waiting for the cast to be confirmed. As of now the names of SRK, Priyanka Chopra , Kangana Ranaut are tagged along the project. SRK is said to play the role of the famous poet Sahir Ludhianvi in this biopic.

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Shah Rukh Khan finalised for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next after Padmavati?

Remember Sanjay Leela Bhansali had announced an ambitious biopic on Urdu poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi, back in 2015? Well, looks like the much impending film is finally set to roll with none other than Shah Rukh Khan in the titular role. Yes! Tentatively titled Gustakhiyan, turns out Bhansali met Shah Rukh recently and has almost finalised him for this film. As a source close to Mumbai Mirror confirmed, “Bhansali and SRK met late one night 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.” Now doesn’t that sound exciting?

For all the ignorant, Sahir – whose real name was Abdul Hayee, was famous for being in relationships with many women through the 1950’s-70’s, though he never married either of them. So the biopic will majorly focus on Sahir’s relationship with poetess-novelist Amrita Pritam, before he went on to court singer-actress Sudha Malhotra. But of course, that aside, Sahir’s contribution to Bollywood too cannot be ignored for he not only bagged his first Filmfare Award for his work in Taj Mahal in 1963, but also won another Black Lady for Best Lyrics for Kabhie Kabhie 13 years later. Blame it on his drinking and smoking habit, Sahir passed away at the age of 59.

While sources close to Shah Rukh have revealed that he’s likely to sign the biopic. It’s left to see who will be finalised opposite SRK to essay Sahir’s ladylove Amrita? Will it be Priyanka Chopra considering there were already rumours about SLB wanting to reunite with PC in a film? Or will it be his favourite muse Deepika Padukone? Or how about Aishwarya Rai Bachchan? Only time will tell.

Currently, Bhansali is investing his whole and soul in his much anticipated film, Padmavati starring Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor. Keep watching this space for more updates on the Sahir biopic.

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Shahrukh Khan Roped in As Poet for Bhansali’s ‘Gustakhiyan’


Sanjay Leela Bhansali is certainly an invincible genius who does all his work with immense pleasure and perfectly as his previous works Ram-Leela, Devdas, Bajirao Mastani were highly commendable. The ongoing project Padmavati featuring Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, among others is considerably one of the most anticipated films of 2017 and with his latest venture still under the reels, Sanjay has already started working on his future project eventually locking in King Khan for his upcoming film. Well, we hear that Bhansali has roped in Shahrukh Khan as the Poet of his film named as Sahir Ludhianvi in his upcoming project titled as Gustakhiyan.

Considered as most ambitious biographical drama, the upcoming project Gustakhiyan‘s plot would be revolving around the life-story of Urdu poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi who had relationships with several women including poetess-novelist Amrita Pritam as well as singer-actress Sudha Malhotra. It will also focus his works in Bollywood as he earned his first Filmfare Award in 1963 for Taj Mahal and then 13 years later for Kabhie Kabhie as Best Lyricist Award.

Shahrukh will be joining hands with Bhansali for the second time as their first project was Devdas, the classical love-drama which bagged almost all the Filmfare Awards back in 2002. The movie was termed as cult wherein lead actors Shahrukh, Madhuri, Aishwarya roped in all the awards. Reuniting after 16 years of time span, Sanjay definitely has something royal and magnificent in his mind for Shahrukh, who gave a tremendous performance as the protagonist in Devdas.

As of now, other leads have not been finalised yet, but project’s title, lead actor, and other crew members have been locked in. Gustakhiyan to be released worldwide in 2018, the production unit Bhansali production is meanwhile concentrating on Padmavati, which is slated to hit the screen on 2017.

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Gustakhiyan: Shahrukh Khan To Play Poet Sahir Ludhianvi In Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Next?

Reports suggest that SRK met the ‘Devdas’ director last week where the later handed him the script saying that he would love to direct him.

Sometime back we had reported that the tinsel town is abuzz with rumours that Sanjay Leela Bhansali is keen to reunite with his 'Devdas' actor Shahrukh Khan for the Sahir Ludhianvi biopic reportedly titled Gustakhiyan. Well, it turns out that all these speculations are absolutely true! As per a Mumbai Mirror report, Bhansali and SRK met last week to discuss the film and if all works out well then, the duo might collaborate on the film in 2018. The daily quoted a source saying, "Bhansali and SRK met late one night 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."