A movie on'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' being shot by Ashutosh Gowariker

A movie on'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' being shot by Ashutosh Gowariker
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 13:05 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
Ashutosh Gowariker is currently in Mumbai filming his period romance, 'Mohenjo Daro'. By the end of the week, the team will have finished the shoot in the city and will move to Bhuj in Gujarat for the last schedule. The director is hoping to wrap up the love story, set in Mohenjo Daro, featuring Hrithik Roshan and newbie Pooja Hegde, by November end, after which he will get busy with the post-production.

The film is scheduled for an August 2016 release.Now, Mirror has learnt that even as he puts the finishing touches to this ambitious project, the director of films like 'Lagaan', 'Swades' and 'Jodhaa Akbar', has been planning his next.

According to a source,the filmmaker intends to bring the classic fairy tale, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', to the screen. "But it won't be flashback time for him again. He will be contemporarising this story which has been loved by kids down the decades, giving it a modern-day twist," says the source. The source adds, "Ashutosh hasn't started on the casting yet.But it will be interesting to see who he chooses as his fairestof-them-all leading lady and her Prince Charming. Then of course, there's the wicked stepmother and the seven dwarfs. The film should roll towards the end of 2016."

The original story revolves around a beautiful princess whose jealous stepmother, after hearing her magic mirror proclaim that Snow White is the fairest of them all, plots her murder. However, the huntsman she has sent to kill her, lets her go. Snow White is befriended by some woodland creatures who lead her to the cottage of the seven adult dwarfs-Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy and Dopeywho mine for jewels. The Queen discovers that her rival is still alive and goes to the jungle in disguise and tricks her into biting into a poisoned apple which puts her in a death like slumber. A prince who fell in love with Snow White a year ago, saddened to see her in eternal sleep, kisses her. The kiss breaks the spell. She wakes up and they live happily ever after.
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