By:
Subhash
K.
Jha,
IndiaFM
Friday,
October
26,
2007
The
Big
B
returned
to
India
earlier
this
week
from
the
London
Film
festival
where
he
was
greeted
to
a
standing
ovation.
He's
now
shooting
for
two
back-to-back
films
Bhootnath
and
Aladdin
where
he
plays
a
ghost
and
djinn.
Says
the
Big
B,
“I
am
shooting
for
Bhootnath
now,
which
completes
by
the
middle
of
November.
I
start
with
Sujoy
Ghosh's
Aladdin
soon
after,
as
also
Shoojit
Sarkar's
tentatively
titled
Shoebite,
a
working
title
just
yet,
and
Leena
Das's
Teen
Patti.
All
these
will
be
on
till
December."
Big
B
then
starts
work
on
his
first
full-fledged
international
project.
"From
January
2008
I'll
be
working
with
Mira
Nair,
Warner
Bros
and
Johnny
Depp
on
Shantaram." For
some
time
now,
the
rumour
mills
have
been
insisting
that
the
Big
B
is
going
bald
for
Mira
Nair's
film.
The
Big
B
richly
rubbishes
the
rumours.
"This
is
completely
untrue!
I've
no
knowledge
of
any
such
requirement
for
Mira's
film,
nor
have
I
spoken
to
anyone
about
it.
When
I
heard
about
this
I
spoke
to
Mira,
and
she
rubbished
it.
She
told
me
she
hasn't
even
envisaged
me
as
bald
for
Shantaram
let
alone
share
it
with
the
media
which
is
so
busy
imagining
me
bald
through
morphed
pictures
on
the
net,
etc.
But
sorry
I'm
not
obliging."
After
Shantaram
the
Big
B
has
Pocket
Maar
with
Ravi
Chopra.
"Ram
Gopal
Varma,
Balki,
Prasoon
Pandey,
Deepa
Mehta
and
a
few
others
are
under
consideration,"
he
concludes.