MUMBAI, Oct 24: Superstar Salman Khan has booked Eid 2019 as the release date of his next film, “Bharat”.
The 51-year-old star will play the title role in the movie, which will be directed by Ali Abbas Zafar.
With “Bharat”, the actor is continuing with the trend of releasing his films on Eid.
The movie is an official adaptation of 2014 South Korean film, “Ode to My Father”, which narrates modern Korean history from the 1950s to the modern day through the life of an ordinary man and events such as the Hungnam Evacuation during the 1950 Korean War.
The film will also depict the government’s decision to dispatch nurses and miners to West Germany in the ’60s and the Vietnam War. “Bharat” will be backed by Atul Agnihotri, who attended the South Korean film’s screening at Berlin Film Festival, where it was identified as potential content for the Indian masses.
Agnihotri says their adaptation will be inspired by the original movie but the story will be based closer to home.
“It’s the journey of a country and also a person, both of whom go by the name of Bharat. “That film is just the starting point for ours but since it was an inspiration, we wanted in all fairness to officially own it and acquired the remake rights before going ahead with Bharat,” he said in a release. (PTI)
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