Here’s some huge casting news from the Bollywood world – megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been set to star alongside Deepika Padukone in the long-planned Hindi remake of The Intern.Bachchan will play the Robert De Niro role, which was previously set to be played by Rishi Kapoor before he died suddenly in April 2020.
Padukone is in the Anne Hathaway role. The original 2015 Warner Bros movie stars Hathaway as the workaholic CEO of an online fashion website who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 70-year-old widower who becomes the company’s latest intern.
The original movie grossed $195M worldwide, including $119M from offshore.The Indian remake is now set to shoot in November 2021 and release in summer 2022.
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