Big B to play genie in Aladdin

Amitabh Bachchan will play the genie in a Bollywood fantasy based on the Disney classic Aladdin, filmmaker Rohan Sippy said in a newspaper interview published on Monday. Rohan said the movie was to be set in 2007 and filming was scheduled to begin this summer. “It is a modern take on Aladdin. The film will have a lot of computer graphics and special effects,” he told a leading newspaper. “It has the potential to be a great family entertainer,” Rohan added. The movie, to be directed by promising filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh, also stars actors Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh.

~ by bollywooddreamz on February 28, 2007.