The National Award winning director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali who’s riding high on the success of his last release Bajirao Mastani and winning the prestigious award for the same is all ready for his next project.

Yes, the director of magnum opus like Devdas, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Bajirao Mastani is yet again set to color the Indian screen canvas through his magical touch.

According to the reports, the filmmaker is all set for yet another epic story. He is going to get the opera-ballad story of Padmavati to the big screen.

The filmmaker who had once directed this tragic story of Padmavati at Paris’ prestigious opera house, Theatre du Chatelet, has now been scripting the same into a film.

It is said to be an anti-hero film about Sultan Alauddin Khilji and his obsessive love for Queen Padmavati of Mewar.

A source says, “Sanjay has always loved this all-destructive romantic tale. Alauddin was a genius who was shrewd and ambitious. He was absolutely smitten by Rani Padmini’s bewitching beauty and unmatchable intellect. This film will be about the queen’s courage to fight her undefeated nemesis.”

Rani Padmini aka Padmavati, the queen of Mewar was known for her beauty. When the second ruler of Khilji dynasty, Alauddin put forward his request to meet the queen in person, despite it being against the rules for a Hindu queen, her husband and Raja Ratan Singh persuaded his wife Padmavati to meet him. Her beauty not only allured Allaudin but the Khilji ruler soon became so obsessed with her that he decided to wage a war against Ratan Singh. Ratan, whose army was comparatively smaller and weaker decided to fight till his last breath. After the defeat of her husband’s army, Padmavati, out of fear of Allaudin and love for Ratan, jumped in the pyre along with other women of Merwar.

Tentatively titled ‘Padmavati,’ the film will be written by Prakash Kapadia who has earlier collaborated with Sanjay on ‘Devdas,’ ‘Black,’ ‘Saawariya’ and the recent ‘Bajirao Mastani.’

The said film may probably also star Ranveer Singh, whose character is yet unknown. Also it has been learnt that this film may release on December 15, 2017.

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