Director Deepa Mehta has signed on actress Shriya Saran for her next film, Komagata Maru. The director has already signed on Akshay Kumar to play the male lead in the movie.
The director is currently in India to promote her film Videsh, which is based on the story of battered Punjabi wife, which has been essayed by Preity Zinta on screen. The filmmaker will then be moving on to Komagata Mary after which she has her sights set on Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children. The author himself is expected to be collaborating with her on the screenplay for that film. But in the interim, the director will be working on Komagata Maru. The story of the film is about the journey of an ill fated ship, which sets out on its voyage from India to Vancover. Shriya will be playing the younger of the only two female passengers who are on board the ship. Akshay plays the lead in the movie. Deepa and Akshay go back a long way as the director had initially signed him on to play the role, which was later essayed by John Abraham in Water. This was when Deepa was making the movie with Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. But the film ran into a lot of controversies in Benaras which forced the director to abandon the film then but not give up on it. A few years later, she shot the movie in Sri Lanka with a different cast and Water did win quite a few accolades internationally. Since that project was not to be for Deepa and Akshay, they have now come together a second time to work on a film. This time, matters are expected to progress smoothly. The shooting of the movie is expected to begin in September this year
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