But Shamin Desai, the director of the film, tragically passed away some time ago, and producer Shailendra Singh is certain that the project cannot be revived because the guy who worked on it for so long is gone. ""The Commissioner" is gone, I worked a lot on it with Shamin, but he's gone, and Modi is not an exciting agenda anymore," says Singh.
However, Singh is planning another film on cricket, though a very different one. This one is going to be a "light-hearted comedy, which I've been researching," says Singh. "Boria Majumdar is my first choice, once he comes back from the World Cup – he's said yes in principle, and he's going to write it for me in terms of the facts." Boria is a Rhodes scholar, a research fellow at LA Trobe University, Melbourne, and a well-known cricket historian and writer.
Says Singh, "The film is going to be called "BCCI", short for " Board Of Cricket Controversies In India"! We've registered the title. It's a small documentary, in the Michael Moore, "Fahrenheit" kind of space. We're going from how things rolled out in the BCCI post-IPL till now. It's not derogatory, but funny, and will be interesting from the fans' perspective."
There are other cricket-meets-Bollywood plans – Singh wants to make "Jannat 2". "I'm just dying to do Jannat 2. We've gone back to the Bhatts for it."
But while on quirky plots, here's another – a bunch of men in a waiting room, all of whom have come for an HIV test, but are trying to conceal that from each other. Singh says the film is called "Be Positive" and is being made by Priyadarshan. " Aamir Khan, contrary to what people have heard, is not on board. He will be given a full screenplay by Priyan, who'll take two more weeks, and then Aamir will decide," says Singh.
