Amitabh Bachchan will play gangster in Ram Gopal Varma’s Department

The cold war between Amitabh Bachchan and Ram Gopal Varma is over finally. The acclaimed director will cast the senior actor in his film Department. It was earlier rumored that Amitabh Bachchan has walked out of the Ram Gopal Varma film. However, with things settling down, things are returning to normalcy.

If those reports were believed, then actually Amitabh Bachchan had walked out of Department, when he came to know that it was the director who had brought disrepute to his son. However, things took a cozy turn when Ram Gopal Varma visited the Big B’s residence on Wednesday night.

The very next morning, he ‘exposed’ Big B’s role in the film (well, finally he did expose someone’s role). He said that Amitabh would be playing the role of a politician who was a former gangster. RGV said, “Imagine the Agneepath character turning over a new leaf and yet to have the same hard intensity and been there done that know-how”.

RGV did not forget to mention that his respect towards the Bachchan family was one of its kinds. He respected the family a lot. He even went on to add the reason for not having Abhishek in Department. It was all due to the date issues, he said.

Abhishek Bachchan won’t do Ram Gopal Varma’s Department

The tension between Abhishek Bachchan and Ram Gopal Varma finally saw the bad taste when Abhi was dropped from Department. Actually, both Ram Gopal Varma and Abhishek Bachchan were not in cordial relations for the past few days.

It was reported that Ram Gopal Varma was conveying all his friends about the end of the film Dum Maaro Dum. He did not even spare Abhishek when Ramu commented about him (not in the right taste, obviously). However, RGV has brought in Rana Daggubati to replace Abhishek in the film.

It was not even one week ago that RGV commented about Dum Maaro Dum and Abhishek. However, had everything been going okay between them, Department could have been the fourth film between Ram Gopal Varma and Abhishek Bachchan. Before this, they have done films like Sarkar and Sarkar Raj – both of which were appreciated a lot.

If sources from Ram Gopal Varma’s side are to be believed, then Abhishek Bachchan did not respond to the director’s calls as he used to do before. This certainly irked RGV to the extent that he not only dropped Abhishek from his film, but also spelled out the end of Dum Maaro Dum before taking a dig at the Jr. B.

Kangana Ranaut to play Abhishek Bachchan’s wife in Department

Kangana Ranaut will play the wife of Abhishek Bachchan in the film Department. The film will be directed by Ram Gopal Varma. It was just the last week that Kangana’s role in the film was finalized. If all things go on well, this will be Kangana Ranaut’s first film with Ram Gopal Varma.

RGV said that Kangana fits like a jigsaw in his visualization as a film maker. That is why he did not have to think twice before offering the role to Kangana Ranaut. RGV has seen Kangana’s previous films and thinks she is the best bet that he can think of.

Kangana’s role in Gangster was appreciated a lot and it was since then that Ram Gopal Varma wanted to work with the charming lady. Even though RGV wanted Kangana to be in his films, he was waiting for a suitable role for her – a role that would do justice to her acting abilities.

Apart from Abhishek, his father Amitabh Bachchan will also be seen in the film along with Sanjay Dutt. What is interesting about the film is that Kangana Ranaut is the only female character in the film.

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