Filmmaker Chandraprakash Dwivedi's new offering 'Mohalla Assi' will see Bollywood actor
Sunny Deol in a new avatar, essaying the role of a dhoti-clad orthodox religious priest.He will be having the full garb of a pundit, all the way from the typical 'dhoti', 'kurta', 'gamcha', 'kolhapuri chappals'...right down to the 'choti' on his head.
The movie is based on Dr Kashinath Singh's novel 'Kashi Ka Assi'. Assi is a ghat in Banaras and the film is based in a famous and historical 'Mohalla' on the southern end of Banaras and the River bank of Ganga," Dwivedi is doing the directorial hat seven years after Urmila Matondkar-Manoj Bajpai starrer 'Pinjar'.
Starring Sunny Deol, Ravi Kishen and Sakshi Tanwar, the film, set in the post-independence period, is slated to release in August 2011.
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