After Rajneeti, Jha wants to work on Draupadi

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Nitesh Prakash

23 June, 2010

'Draupadi' is a dream project of Jha and two years earlier he had planned to make the film with Madhuri Dixit but things did not work out. Boosted by the success of Rajneet, Jha now wants to start work on Draupadi.

AFTER THE success of political flick, ‘Raajneeti’, director Prakash Jha is thinking to work on a new project which is likely to feature Angelina Jolie as Draupadi. ‘Draupadi’ is a modern day adaptation of the great epic Mahabharata.

‘Draupadi’ is a dream project of Jha and two years earlier he had planned to make the film with Madhuri Dixit but things did not work out. Boosted by the success of Rajneet, Jha now wants to start work on Draupadi and make it in English rather than Hindi and he is planning to take Hollywood star Angelina Jolie for the lead role.

“Draupadi’ is the ultimate tribute to womanhood. I’ve wanted to make it for years. Yes, Madhuri was my choice earlier. But now I’m going to make it as an international film with an international cast on a budget that would make the film a grand epic.”says Prakash Jha.

Further he adds that “The actors have to be exotic in their features since my ‘Draupadi’ would be set in the mountains. If you’ve seen Peter Brooks’s celebrated stage adaptation of the Mahabharata it starred Mallika Sarabhai who does have exquisite features,”.