HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF: Abhishek Bachchan

It's happened, again!

          Why is it that when one producer decides to make a film on some historical figure,  the rest of Bollywood also jumps onto the bandwagon ? This happened last in 2002, when poor Bhagat Singh's spirit was revived in not two, but four films, with Ajay Devgn and Bobby Deol respectively playing the daring hero of the uprising!

               Now it's revolutionary Surya Sen's turn. The man, known as Masterda, who led the Chittagong Uprising of 1930, has two films being made on him --one by LA filmmaker Bedabrata Pain; and the second by Ashutosh Gowariker, Manoj Bajpayee plays Surya in Bedabrata's film Cittagong and Abishek Bachchan plays him in Ashutosh's Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. While Ashu's film is being made on a grand budget, Bedabrata's will be against a more conservative expense sheet. Ashu's film is also based on Manini Chatterjee's Bengali award-winning novel Do or Die while Bedabrata's is on history itself. And both the films will release this year !