The project is understood to be at an exploratory stage, and there has been no official announcement confirming its cast, director, budget, production schedule or seven-language release plan
The Indian film industry (both North and South India) is known for launching big budget projects only for them to either have ballooned up numbers or never take off. Now, this writer overheard some whispers occurring within industry corridors for one of the most ambitious projects ever with early discussions understood to be taking place overseas. A source revealed, “There is a team exploring an ambitious contemporary film drawing inspiration from the Shiva Purana, with its characters and themes envisioned in a modern-day setting.”
Pan-India stars on the radar
Adding to the intrigue is the proposed casting. The principal roles are expected to be drawn from leading actors across both South Indian and Hindi cinema, giving the project a distinctly pan-India character. As per our source, prominent names from the southern film industries as well as Bollywood are among those being explored for key characters.
The source adds, “So far Mammootty, Mohanlal and Prithviraj from the Malayalam film industry, Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan from the Tamil film industry, Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and even Madhuri Dixit from the Hindi film industry are understood to be among the names that have surfaced during the preliminary conversations.”
