Just A Minute With: Sujoy Ghosh on 'Aladin'
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Six years after he first made a mark with the low-budget comedy "Jhankaar Beats", filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh is back with a tale of fantasy.
"Aladin" is Ghosh's biggest project yet -- Bollywood's take on Aladin's fabled magic lamp, starring veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan as the genie.
Ghosh spoke to Reuters about directing India's biggest star and the "Aladin" journey.
Q: Have you changed Aladin's story at all in this film?
A: "It is my take on the old fable. The main character in this film is called Aladin and he always gets bullied in school. People make him rub lamps and expect him to make a genie appear. He keeps telling them that he can't but one day in the process of this bullying, he happens to rub a lamp, and a genie does appear.
"So that is my take on the whole fable, where you remain true to the core of your story, but you give it a different format, in terms of marketing, presentation, visuals etc. So I would like to think it is a modern take on this age-old tale."
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