Shahid Kapoor and Dad: Coming soon - 2

posted by   kavita121 (2)   5 months ago (bollywood.nkut.com)

About his much-touted Ramayan, director Raj Santoshi says he has selected the South Indian actor Prakash Raj to play Ravan opposite Ajay Devgan�s Ram in Ramayan. �It�s a decision we took after much deliberation. Only North Indian actors would be cast as members of King Dasharath�s clan in Ayodhya. Hence Ajay plays Ram and Riteish Deshmukh has been finalized to play Laxman. All of Ravan�s clan will be cast from the South,� says Santoshi, after his Ajay Devgan-Vidya Balan starrer Halla Bal, and also trying to get Salman�s dates for his dream project London Dreams in place. There�s also the comedy that Raj Santoshi is planning to make with Pankaj Kapoor and his son Shahid. �I�ve met both, and the project is on.It will be an out-and-out slapstick comedy with Pankaj-ji and Shahid playing father and son. I haven�t returned to comedy since Andaz Apna Apna. It�s time I had myself some laughs,� chuckles the prolific director. Ramayan starts shooting in February or March 2008. Prakash Raj who has been selected to play Ravan is a prolific Telugu actor. He was recently offered the chance to play the sandalwood bandit Veerappan in a film that Veerappan�s wife wanted to produce. Prakash Raj declined the offer.