YRF's Thug: Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan to team up for the first time ever
The film will be directed Dhoom 3 director Vijay Krishna Acharya, after Hrithik Roshan was first approached for it.
If the latest reports surrounding Aamir Khan's Thug are to be believed, then Shahanshah of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan has been signed for a significant role in the film. This will be the first time, Bachchan Sr will team up with the PK actor.
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Thug will be directed by Dhoom 3 director Vijay Krishna Acharya, who had previously offered the film to Hrithik Roshan who wasn't impressed chose to go ahead with his home production Kaabil, being directed by Sanjay Gupta.
Acharya went back to the drawing board, rewrote the entire script which is an adaptation of Phillip Meadow Taylor's book, Confessions of a Thug. Aamir Khan was really excited by the script, and also with the scope of playing a tapori again after 1994's Rangeela or 1998's Ghulam.
Having undergone two intense, lengthy schedules of Nitesh Tiwari's Dangal - where Aamir plays a retired wrestler and then his younger version, we're sure the Talaash actor was looking to do something fun. This will be a historic casting, however, the production team have been asked to keep the project under wraps until the official announcement.