UTV Set to Make 'Chanakya's Chant' a Film
Wednesday, 07 September 2011, 16:12 IST
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Mumbai: UTV Motion Pictures has bought the rights of author Ashwin Sanghi's 2010 bestseller "Chanakya's Chant" and is set to turn it into a Bollywood blockbuster. "Chanakya's Chant" is a novel with alternate accounts of how political strategist Chanakya strove to make Chandragupta Maurya the emperor of Magadha, and a contemporary account of a Brahmin school teacher who grooms a girl from slum to become India's prime minister. A source revealed that UTV would soon start casting for the film. A UTV spokesperson confirmed that they have acquired the rights of the novel but refrained from divulging any details about the development.
Source: IANS
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