Dhirubhai's death secret on the screen?

When Reliance founder Dhirubhai Ambani died, there were rumours that the news of his death kept secret for few days just to protect the stock market from crashing. But nobody substantiated this rumour. Now the another rumour is making rounds in Bollywood. It is rumoured that Rahul Rawail's new movie 'Buddha mar gaya' is based on Dhirubhai's death.

Though Rahul Rawail himself says film is not based on Dhirubhai's death, but agrees that the storyline is similar."My film is about a man who has a lot of money riding on him and how the family hides his death for monetary reasons…" he says! The character who plays the dead old man is none other than Anupam Kher. But even Kher has no idea about the Dhirubhai angle in the film. "My character is that of a businessman who dies and the family hides his death from the world to avoid the stock market from crashing.This is the most challenging role of my career. It is really difficult to play a dead man whose eyes are kept open all the time so that people do not realise that he is dead"

Seems like an interesting film (Hopefully a comedy!)

Talking about comedies, the best character being a dead man was done by none other than Satish Shah in 'Jaane bhi do yaaron'. Just thinking about that movie brings huge grin on my face. whattefun!