Coming up next is late actor Om Puri’s Biopic ! 

A biopic on late actor Om Puri is in the works, says his estranged wife Nandita Puri. Nandita, who penned the critically acclaimed actor’s biography titled “Unlikely Hero: The Story of Om Puri”, told :

“I am adapting the book and making a biopic on Omji. I am taking part of the book and I am putting it as he wanted, as an inspirational story.”

Difficult to cast :

• She said she is yet to cast an actor who can essay Om Puri as “it is difficult to do so”.
• “We are just at the developing stage of the screenplay.
• The script is the most important thing for a film,” said Nandita, a journalist herself.
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• Om Puri’s biography was released in 2009, and the actor was upset with his wife for highlighting some of his most private sexual incidents.
• Things started becoming sour between them from thereon.
• The biopic, Nandita says, will have “a few parts from the book and will mostly be throwing light on his struggle, the way Omji wanted”.

 Survived in FTII :

• “As a journalist, I had gone to interview him.
• He said, Why don’t you put my life story.
• Furthermore, he came from a very humble background. He worked at a tea stall at the age of six to put food for the family on the table.
• His journey involved facing very difficult circumstances… From literally starving at FTII (Film and Television Institute of India)…
• If it hadn’t been for Girish Karnad who gave him a film and he got Rs 3000
• and managed to get through two years of FTII on that.
• “Even veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal had told me that when Omji was working in Mumbai,
• he was so poor and thin, he was down with jaundice and they used to think that he did not know whether the next meal was coming or not.
• From that, there are a hundred inspiring incidents from his childhood —
• how he overcame this, how he lived through it, how he surpassed it,” she added.
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• Om Puri, whose repertoire as an actor reflected a rare realism, died in January after a heart attack.
• His death had triggered nationwide outpouring of condolences from top leaders, fans and the film fraternity. Furthermore ,he was 66.
• Known for his deep baritone and distinctive acting style, Om Puri had an affinity towards socially relevant cinema.
• This drove him into doing movies like “Aakrosh” and “Ardh Satya” which proved to be box office hits.