Anil Kapoor is autistic in Yuvraaj

Anil Kapoor is autistic in Yuvraaj
Friday, November 14, 2008 16:47 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Being autistic is almost like the crest of being artistic. Hrithik Roshan did the autistic act with National award winning élan in Koi...Mil Gaya.

And just as we heard of Shah Rukh Khan turning autistic for his role as the isolated Muslim in New York in Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan, comes the news that Anil Kapoor will be seen playing an autistic character in Subhash Ghai's Yuvraaj.

Says a source, "Anil plays elder brother to Salman and Zayed Khan. Subhash Ghai had been meaning to incorporate a physically-psychologically challenged character into his script for a long time. It was Anil who told Subhashji the story idea for Yuvraaj."

Apparently Raj Kapoor at one time wanted to make a similar film written for him by his long-term collaborator Jainendra Jain.

Interestingly this isn't the first time that Anil Kapoor is playing an autistic character. In K Vishwanath's Eeshwar twenty years ago Anil was cast as a 'slow' saintly man (this was the closest we came to describing autism in those days) who wins over the village widow.Anil has selfadmittedly copied Raj Kapoor in Eeshwar. If sources are to believed Anil's reference point in Yuvraaj is Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

Other screen heroes to suffer psychological disorders includes Sanjeev Kumar in Anhonee and Khilona, Jeetendra in Jyoti and Amol Palekar in Solva Sawan.
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