Mumbai: After months of speculations over Hrithik Roshan in Ashutosh Gowariker’s next period epic, the director finally breaks his silence. The film based on Mohenjo-Daro civilization will bring both of them together after Jodha Akbar in 2008. It will go on floors by the end of the year once Hrithik is done with his current commitments. Ashutosh Gowariker has been researching on this subject since 2011 before meeting the actor.
“They were more than 25 books of research material journals and it took me 3 years to put everything together. There is no end to research but we have a script ready now,” said the director.
Another part of his research included meeting a lot of archaeologists. “We know little about the civilization, may be a couple of paragraphs in school books. But script has been created meeting a lot of archaeologists.”
Hrithik is someone not to get easily convinced as he sets his own parameters to select a script. With years of research and pages of material what was the actor’s reaction? Ashutosh, who maintained a serious tone all this while, burst into laughter. “It blew his mind by my research. He was surprised to how little do we actually know about that world.”
Coming to the casting he reasons out on opting for Hrithik Roshan and says, “ I think his larger than life person and he is someone who comes across as a saviour. Whatever he portrays on screen, it has so much passion and purity.
While Mohenjo-daro is not a visitor’s site, he has travelled to places like Lotha, a prominent city of the ancient Indus valley civilisation to get a better understanding from ground level and get a lot of details of the city. However, his wish list is to visit Mohenjo-daro one day. He quips, “Lets see if I get to fulfil this wish.”
