Amitabh Bachchan turns 'Natsamrat'!

The actor will be seen in the role of the protagonist – an aging Shakespearean stage actor in Mahesh Manjrekar’s on-screen adaptation of V V Shirwadkar's Marathi literary masterpiece
Amitabh Bachchan has given a green signal to his career's first ever screen adaptation of Marathi literature. The actor will play the role of an aging Shakespearean actor in the adaptation of V V Shirwadkar's Marathi literary masterpiece Natsamrat.
we learnt that director Mahesh Manjrekar, who had been scripting the screen version of the celebrated play for more than a year, finally took the screenplay to Big B for approval last week. The film will begin in the next couple of months ahead of Big B starrer Mehrunissa.
According to reports, the actor will begin shooting for the film soon after he returns from a medical check up abroad. When contacted Manjrekar said, "Mr Bachchan has done it all. When he read Natsamrat, the character of the protagonist just grabbed him. This is the kind of challenge he's looking for at this stage of his career."
However, we learnt that Big B fears that his role in the film will have shades of Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear where the Big B played an aging Shakespearean actor.
Manjrekar told us, "I saw Rituparno Ghosh's film to make sure there are no similarities between his film and mine. Mr Bachchan's role in Natsamrat is completely different from The Last Lear. He plays a fading stage actor who forgets the difference between real life and the Shakespearean characters he plays. I feel at this stage in his career this is the kind of challenge Mr Bachchan needs. And he agrees."
In the next few months the Big B will undertake extensive preparation for his role in Natsamrat. Since he has never acted in a movie version of a stage adaptation the actor needs to merge the stage and screen performance in the same line of vision.