Muzaffar Ali Wants Big B or Naseeruddin Shah to do his role in Jaanisaar

Umrao Jaan director, Muzaffar Ali is busy promoting his upcoming venture Jaanisaar. Reportedly, the director is also acting in the film. Ali says that he wanted to cast Amitabh Bachchan or Naseeruddin Shah for the role he portrayed, but certainly, both the stars were busy with other projects. Going by the demand of the script, the filmmaker decided to do the role himself.

“According to the demand of the script, there was a need of a person who somewhat resembled me. We were thinking about Naseer and Amitabh, but both of them didn’t have the time. That’s according to us, but according to them, we would have perhaps got their time only after two years”, Muzaffar Ali revealed in a statement.

Ali also revealed that it was his son Shaad, who motivated him to do the film. He said, “My son told me that I should do the role. I told him that if you’ll be around, then I’ll do it and eventually I did it”. The Imran Abbas starrer film is all set to hit the theatres on August 7.