Ajay Devgan’s repertoire boasts of a great variety of roles. But we aren’t yet sure whether we’ll see Ajay playing Ram in the near future. Rubbishing a report carried by a newspaper about Devgan being signed for the coveted role of Ram in his film, director Raj Santoshi laughs, “Just because Ajay and I work together extensively and Ajay has done many films with me from Bhagat Singh to Lajja, Ajay as Ram is a safe and intelligent guess. But I haven’t spoken to Ajay or any star about playing Ram,” he says.


Raj Kumar Santoshi has decided to take a leap in his career and is launching his own production house called Raj Kumar Santoshi Films Pvt Ltd. “My first independent production will be Ramayan. I can’t think of a more auspicious beginning for my production house,” says the director.


“Work is on full-time on the scripting and pre-production details of Ramayan. It will be the biggest and most spectacular version of the epic,” says director. The director says he’d love to cast an established superstar in the eponymous role. “But the actor I cast will have to work hard on his looks, his body language and everything. The image isn’t so important. I can’t order my actor to live in a particular way just to live up the Ramayan’s ideals. But yes, I think any actor who plays Rama in my production would automatically realise the importance of what he’s doing,” he says.


He is also open to the idea of casting a new actor for Rama’s role. “It could work either way for me. An image-less newcomer could be perfect. But there’re inbuilt problems to that. I will have to lead him by his fingers. That may be too big a task to undertake in this project where I want to concentrate on creating the perfect ambience for the epic,” he says. Santoshi hopes to get the principal cast in place by September. Ramayan will go on the floors next year





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