French producer wants Bachchans as Lamas

The current Dalai Lama will also make an appearance in the film, producer Manuel Collas de La Roche told Deccan Herald.

The film will be directed by Belgium-born French director Jan Kounen, whose latest film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, focusing on the intense love affair between the fashion diva and the maverick theatre genius, is the closing film of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.

“I am looking at both Bachchans playing two Dalai Lamas. And I am soon going to talk to them regarding this,” says Roche.

Incidentally, Roche is the man behind the human rights film festival Cinema Verite to be held in Geneva and Paris later this year, where Abhishek-Aishwarya Rai-starrer Sarkar Raj will be screened.

“The Dalai Lama film will look at the lives of all the Dalai Lamas, and the philosophy espoused by them. Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan’s presence will make the film exciting,” says Roche.