Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra confirmed he is working with producer Ronnie Screwala on a project titled Kabaddi, but refuted rumours about Hrithik Roshan walking out of the movie.
“Scriptwriting is something I enjoy, but it is also very tedious and slow process. Sometimes it can take you two years. Rang De Basanti took me five years to write and get it right. [And] yes, I am working with Ronnie Screwala and I think we should be ready with the script in a year or so from today and then we will decide about shooting,” said Mehra.
Asked about the reports that Roshan had walked out of the film due to creative differences, he said: “There is nothing like that.”
“Before I know things, media knows everything. Next time I will ask a journo what I should do,” he said about media speculation.
About his next project, which is based on the issue of female sanitation through the perspective of an eight-year-old boy, he said: “Film is progressing, shooting is over now, and the movie is titled Mere Pyaare Prime Minister. In the film, there is an eight-year-old boy, who writes a letter to Prime Minister of India asking him few questions and make some requests. And then goes all the way to Delhi, to hand him the letter.
“He is raised by a single mother in the film, her name is Sargam, played by Anjali Patil, and he wants to make a toilet for her mother.”
“The movie will release anywhere between February to July 2018,” he added.
