After box-office dud "Raavan", Abhishek Bachchan is returning to the big screen as freedom fighter Surjya Sen in Ashutosh Gowariker`s "Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey", based on the Chittagong uprising. The actor says he was embarrassed when offered the role as he was ignorant about the historical episode."I was embarrassed because as an Indian citizen I didn`t know about Surjya Sen, the great Chittagong uprising and these great freedom fighters who laid their lives for our freedom. I felt the story should be told at a wider scale," Abhishek told reporters.Based on journalist Manini Chatterjee`s book "Do and Die: The Chittagong Uprising 1930-34", the film is a true story about revolution against the British in Chittagong, then a district in undivided Bengal. The film also stars Deepika Padukone as Kalpana Dutta.Abhishek, 34, was in Shimla to unveil...
- 11/7/2010
- Filmicafe
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