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Nikhil Dwivedi, who is controlling the film, believes she is a perfect fit for the director’s chair in the project. Talking about it, Nikhil recently told BT in a chat, “We have approached Farah to direct the film and she is working with the idea. It is the book Dark Star by Gautam Chintamani. : The . is reading
Loneliness of being Rajesh Khanna, She is working on turning it into a feature and Gautham is writing the script. We also have a few actors in mind but the final decision will lie with Farah once she is fully on board. To be honest, I think Farah is one of the most capable directors we have. He is mature, he has closely observed the complexities and struggles of this industry. She just shrugs off that serious side of her, burying it under all the jokes and laughs. But I strongly feel that he is the perfect fit to handle this film. He is the perfect choice to direct the film.”
Talking about the struggles, rise and fall, Nikhil believes that there is a side to Rajesh Khanna’s story that the film aims to bring to light. He says, “Rajesh Khanna’s story is a rise that no one has seen and a fall that was meteoric and obscure. He came back with an episode of Golden Jubilee. You can have issues with him and point out flaws in him but you can never take away his influence on people. Even when his films did not perform, he was among the top five stars in the country. He had a complex personality, which not many people understood. Those who truly understood him, they swore by him. RD Burman had surgery in the UK and was kind of lonely and going through a rough patch of work. Rajesh Khanna Took an overnight flight to reach there. There was no professional thread binding them; It was only for him. There was an inherent goodness in the man which, like many other aspects of his personality, was largely unwritten. ,
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