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Veteran Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah has been roped in for an upcoming Bangladeshi film titled ‘Project Ommi’ directed by Amit Ashraf.
The chief assistant director of the film, Sheikh Azizul Rahman Mitul has confirmed the news to The Business Post.
“We have contacted Naseeruddin Shah through zoom call and he agreed to work with us. He is playing a negative role in the film. He will be seen as a cult leader. Now we are auditioning for the other characters in the film. We are expecting to start the shooting of the film in the middle of the next year,” said Mitul.
“The film will be 95 per cent English language, though some of the characters will speak Bengali. We are expecting to release the film internationally first. Afterwards, we will go for local theatres,” he added.
The plot of ‘Project Ommi’ takes place around the year 2050. In the near future, online criminals use surrogate robots to kidnap and harm children in Bangladesh. A hacker named Ravi tracks these criminals but they are always one step ahead. He is aided by an Interpol agent named Caris who is far away but appears as a VR projection, ordering him to initiate a new tactic which Ravi reluctantly accepts. Even though he is an expert programmer, Ravi hates computers because it was the technology for which he lost his younger brother. Then Ravi made an AI robot named Ommi like his lost younger brother who will fight against those cybercriminals.
Himel Tariq, the Bangladeshi producer of the upcoming science-fiction thriller, said that there is an opportunity for an open casting for ‘ Project Ommi’. If anyone wants to act in the movie, they have to contact the production company or the chief assistant director, Sheikh Azizul Rahman.
The film is jointly produced by Kazi Productions House in Bangladesh and For Films in the UK. British producer Jenny Walker has also joined in the project. Jenny has produced a number of productions, including documentaries, for the BBC and Channel Four.
Amit Ashraf is mostly famed for directing the 2013 film ‘Udhao’ and the 2016 superhero web series ‘Kali’.
Naseeruddin Shah is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific actors in the history of Indian cinema. He has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. The government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan awards for his contributions to films. Naseeruddin has acted in many notable films including ‘Sparsh’, ‘Paar’, ‘Masoom’, ‘Akrosh’, ‘A Wednesday’, ‘Ishqiya’ and ‘Iqbal’.
