Kishore Kumar biopic will now be a romance flick, at Aamir's insistence

It looks like the Kishore Kumar biopic which the singer's fans have been waiting for, will be made in a different avatar.

Quick Gun Murugun director Shashanka Ghosh's biopic with Aamir Khan playing the legendary singer, which had been put on the backburner, has now been revived; though in a seriously revised form.



Ab prem kahaani
The director says, "Now it's no more a Kishore Kumar biopic. It's now a love story between Kishore Kumar and Madhubala. When I went to Aamir with the original draft of the script he asked, 'Mudda kya hai? (What's the point?)' I understood his point.

The biopic went into too many directions trying to capture the multi-facted singer- composer-actor, etc. I reworked it . And focus is now on Kishore Kumar's love for Madhubala," He has been working on another version of the Kishore Kumar story after Aamir suggested the changes.

Aamir Khan has already been chosen to play Kishore Kumar. One of the names being considered to play Madhubala is Vidya Balan.

Unfulfilled love
Shedding light on the new revised Kishore-Madhubala romance Shashanka says, "It's a heartbreaking love story of this zany genius and one of the most beautiful women on this earth who couldn't be a wife to her devoted husband because she had a hole in her heart. She was not allowed to make love or do any of the things that normal couples do."

The passion, frustrations, rage, bitterness and tenderness will all be part of this Rs 80 crore film which will start with Kishore Kumar as a teen. "No prosthetics, and certainly not another actor playing Kishore at 19. It'll be Aamir all the way," says Ghosh. It won't be difficult to transform Vidya into Madhubala since she's the right age.

Recreating the past
But to recreate the Mumbai of the 1950s won't be easy. "I want to do the entire Linking Road in the '50s when there was just one bungalow on the entire road and that belonged to S D Burman," says the ambitious director. "I want to show how the profound frustrations of his love for Madhubala affected Kishore Kumar's life and behaviour outside his home."

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Anurag Kashyap was planning on making a film on Kishore Kumar mainlining Vinay Pathak but when he heard about Ghosh's biopic with Aamir, he withdrew from the race.

Amit Kumar's two bits
Kishore's son Amit Kumar reacts: "I have no idea of this project. I believe Shoojit Sircar is making a film on my father for UTV. My family, the legal heirs of Kishore Kumar are Leenaji, me and my brother Sumit. And UTV approached us. That someone else is doing it, is news to me. Kisiko bhi banaane dijiye. Achchi baat hai. But it isn't easy to make a film on Kishore Kumar. No matter how great the actor it'd be really difficult to play my father. I hope it'll be a good film. Because it will either be a very good or a very bad film."