Shah Rukh Khan to play Sahir Ludhianvi

Shah Rukh Khan is in an experimental frame of mind. After playing his own fan in Fan and a real life bootlegger in Prohibition-hit Gujarat in the forthcoming Raees, Shah Rukh is all set to play the legendary poet-lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi in a film to be produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Sources say the filmmaker and actor — who together created the epic blockbuster Devdas in the past — are all set to work together again on the biopic, titled Gustakhiyan.  This time Bhansali will only produce the film. A  new director Jasmeet Reen is being roped in to do the needful.

Initially, Irrfan Khan had been roped in to play Sahir when the film was to be produced by Ashi Dua.