Rajkumar Santoshi has a flickering mind when it comes to starting new projects.
Almost a year back, after the success of Khakee, Santoshi was considering several story ideas from Prithiviraj Sanjukta to Chatrapati Shivaji. But he finalized on Ranveer for AB Corp that was supposed to star Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan for the first time along with Sanjay Dutt. Unfortunately the project was shelved.
Santoshi subsequently started Keshu Ramsay's Family early in 2005 starring Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Aryaman and this time fortunately the project is going ahead steadily. Of all his story-ideas prior to Family, Prithiviraj Sanjukta was the one that still fascinated him and he had plans to make a film on the subject with Ajay Devgan and Aishwarya Rai in title roles.
But in between all this, he zeroed in on a new theme and launched another film Saamna starring Ajay Devjan, Aishwarya Rai, Akshay Kumar and Nana Patekar. So after Family, it's Saamna which means Prithiviraj Sanjukta will still have to wait.
Amidst all this, another talented filmmaker Chandraprakash Dwivedi who earlier directed the masterpiece period drama Pinjar, was enthralled on the life history of the Rajput king Prithviraj and his ladylove Sanjukta. The director whose meticulous detailing showed in Pinjar did his share of research on the subject and wanted to cast Sunny Deol in the role of Prithiviraj. However his choice for Sanjukta was same as Santoshi's - Aishwarya.
Dwivedi had also offered Pinjar to Aishwarya earlier but she couldn't do the film. However this time Dwivedi desperately wanted Ash to be a part of his period drama. But Aishwarya was ethically committed to Santoshi on the same subject though the film still had some time to start-off.
Also Aishwarya was against the idea that two filmmakers work on the same theme at the same time. Earlier too Santoshi faced a similar situation in 2002 when his historical biopic on Bhagat Singh clashed with Guddu Dhanoa's film on exactly the same story that released on the same day. That worked against both the films. Neither Aishwarya nor the filmmakers or the Bollywood audience would want history to repeat itself (no pun).
So finally the two filmmakers reportedly seem to have reached on a settlement. The deal is that only one among Santoshi and Dwivedi will make a film on the Prithiviraj-Sanjukta. And Aishwarya will work with the one who starts the movie first. In most probabilities Dwivedi may prove out to be the winner since Santoshi is currently busy with Family and will soon start Saamna thereafter. Also the agreement between the directors doesn't end there. The buzz is that the filmmakers are ready to share their research knowledge with each other.
We would just want the best man to win. The woman (Aishwarya) wins either ways.
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