Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra to reunite for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gustakhiyan?
Yes! Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra fans can finally rejoice. The Don 2 jodi may return to the big screen in 2018! Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been planning Urdu poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi ‘s biopic for quite sometime now. Several names including Irrfan Khan and Fawad Khan were in the running to play Ludhianvi’s role in the biopic titled Gustakhiyan, which was announced way back in 2015.
According to Mumbai Mirror, Bhansali recently met the Raees actor last week to handover the script of the biopic to SRK. SLB apparently spoke to Shah Rukh on how he would like to direct the actor in 2018. A source close to the development was quoted saying, “There is a lot of poetry in the film and SRK has been reading Sahir’s ghazals and nazms.”Though Shah Rukh Khan hasn’t signed Gustakhiyan, a source close to the actor informed the tabloid that he is in love with the script and is keen on reuniting with the Bajirao Mastani filmmaker. We also hear that Bhansali has been spending a lot of time with SRK lately discussing cinema.
We were hardly able to contain our excitement when we found out that SRK and SLB are reuniting and now we hear that the filmmaker wants Priyanka Chopra to be a part of Gustakiyan. The actress is in India at the moment for a short break. While talking to the press at a recent award ceremony, the actress told that she will sign two Bollywood projects before she returns to US. A while ago, Filmfare reported saying that one of PeeCee’s most important meetings was with Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The two met up to discuss Bhansali’s next, a film on the late lyricist-poet, Sahir Ludhianvi. And with this development, we will get to see the much awaited jodi of Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra on the big screen after a gap of seven long years. Are you excited?
Gustakiyan will be Bhansali’s next after Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor’s Padmavati and will go on floors in 2018. The film will trace Sahir’s relationship with poetess-novelist Amrita Pritam before he went on to court singer actress Sudha Malhotra.