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| Amitabh Bachchan and Leanardo Di Caprio |
After over four decades in Bollywood, Indian movie legend Amitabh Bachchan will lastly grace the Hollywood silver screen with Leanardo Di Caprio starrer "The Great Gatsby".
Warner Bros. Pictures confirmed on Wednesday that the 68-year-old Bollywood superstar, who has acted in more than 100 Indian movies over more than 40 years, will play the role of Meyer Wolfsheim in the smash hit 3D big screen adaptation of the 1925 F.Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name, reports the New York Post.
Filming of the drama romance, directed by Oscar nominee Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, began on Monday in Sydney , Australia
"The Great Gatsby" follows would-be writer Nick Carraway, played by Tobey Maguire, as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City
Chasing his own American Dream, Carraway lands next door to a millionaire, Jay Gatsby, played by DiCaprio, star of The Aviator and Inception.
The 120-million-dollars movie will be distributed in 3D and 2D by Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures.
It is likely to hit theatres in November 2012.
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