Shekhar Kapur's much-hyped and yet-to-be-shot movie Buddha would not shy away from showing incidents from the life of the founder of Buddhism who also had his 'fair share of pleasures' before attaining Enlightenment.

Producers of the movie MCorpGlobal have made it clear that like any other Shekhar Kapur movie, Buddha would be based on the real life story of Siddharth, the prince who bathed in all the pleasures that man could ever dream of and Buddha, the Enlightened, who experienced pains that no one could ever dream of.

"This is the story about a middle path in the life of a human who, like all of us, was faced with a challenge to make a choice between two extremes. And he chose an exemplary path forsaking all pleasures. So Buddha was human, after all, but attained the status that he did by making the right choice with courage," told MCorp chief and president of the Maha Bodhi Society of India Dr Bhupendra Modi.

An audio-visual promotion of the movie done up by Kapur himself and set to music by A R Rehman sums up the essence of the movie in vivid graphics and sketches.

Alongside 'the enlightenment', 'the battle within', 'search for self', 'the inner realm' and 'the torment' the promotional video also talks of 'pleasure', 'love' and 'the demon' as important facets of Buddha's life to be depicted in the 60 million dollar Hollywood co-production.