LONDON, Jan 31 (APP): A leading Hollywood actor and director Robert Redford is planning a film about the life of the assassinated former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, says a report in the British media.
The report said that no details are yet available about the Redford project, but it is thought that Benazir Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, is likely to give his support to a big American production.
The report also said other film-maker interested in making movie about the life of Ms.Bhutto is the Indian director Mahesh Bhatt, who has always campaigned for cordial India-Pakistan relations, and says his film will concentrate on the softer, humane side of Bhutto, whom Indians fondly remember from a visit she made to the country in the 1970s.
Benazir was 19 years old when she accompanied her father, Zulifikar Ali Bhutto, to the north Indian hill resort of Shimla for peace talks between the two countries in 1972.
The report further said Bhatt has chosen a noted Indian actress Shabana Azmi to play Benazir. Azmi is also a renowned social activist, having fought for the rights of the country’s poor and exploited and her relentless battle against religious extremism has often been seen as an extension of her cinema roles.