From the Guardian:
He won an Oscar playing Mohandas Gandhi in Richard Attenborough’s 1982 biopic of the Indian leader. Twenty seven years on, Ben Kingsley looks set to delve into subcontinental history books once again as part of a new project which will see him star as the Mogul emperor who built the Taj Mahal.
The actor will play Shah Jahan in Taj, a $25-$30m (£15m-£18m) project which he is also producing, his firm SBK Pictures said in a statement today. Indian superstar and former Miss World, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, has agreed to appear as Mumtaz Mahal, Jahan’s favoured wife and the woman whose death in childbirth inspired the construction of the world-famous building between 1632 and 1654. More:
