Recently it was announced that director Shivam Nair was planning to cast Ileana D’Cruz as Uzma Ahmed in her biopic, which will soon make its way to celluloid. Now speculations are rife that actor Saif Ali Khan is likely to join the cast of the film. While the whole film will be a tell-all tale about Uzma’s experience and her subsequent rescue from her fraud Pakistani husband, the biopic will have another angle to it. Shivam himself confirmed that he is in talks with Saif Ali Khan, regarding the role. “Yes, we are in talks with Saif. We are in the final stages of scripting and then, we will take the final call. Saif will be the main male lead, if he says yes,” he said.
The director also claims that people don't really know about the character that Saif will play in the film. "Along with Uzma’s story, our story is also about a diplomat in the Indian embassy and the Union Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj. The character is of an Indian diplomat who’s there in Pakistan, and how he handles the whole case. When the girl is inside the Embassy, he is the one helping and taking care of her. We only know about Uzma and her story. People don’t know much about the role of this diplomat,” the director stated. He further added, “It’s a positive role. That’s the major part of the story. The diplomat and the girl (to be rescued) are the lead roles.”
Apparently, what's interesting is that Kunal Kemmu was the one to take the film to Saif. “Saif already knows about the idea. I have worked with Kunal earlier so I know him well and I suggested the idea to him. He knows Saif well so he briefed him about the film,” the director said.
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