VISHAL BHARDWAJ'S NEXT TRACES LIFE AFTER 9/11!

Rangoon director Vishal Bhardwaj is finally taking a break from Shakespeare. The maverick film-maker will be directing an adaptation of Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark’s non-fiction book The Exile: The Flight of Osama Bin Laden. The film will be produced by Bhardwaj and Junglee Pictures and will be titled Abbottabad.

Abbottabad is a prequel to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty which traced the US Army's mission to kill Osama Bin Laden in 2011. No further details about the project, including the cast have been revealed yet.

Talking to Times of India about how the film happened Bhardwaj said, “About a year back, Levy and Scott-Clark came to meet me and we had another chat about The Siege. During that chat, I asked them about what they were working on next. They told me about the next book they were working on—The Exile and I was sold on it in one line when they said it’s “the prequel to Zero Dark Thirty”...I wanted to read it. I signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement and reading it only convinced me further that I wanted a film like this, a global film, to come out of India, on a global story like this.”

Better known for his desi adaptations of Shakespeare's work, this is Bhardwaj's first attempt at a cross-border film and we're damn sure the director will do full justice to the book as well as the story. Here's wishing you all the luck!