MUMBAI : Naseer Khan, a blind businessman is playing the role of a gunman who fights tigers and jumps off burning cars in "Shadow", a new Bollywood film to be released in August.The 36-year-old lost his sight when he was in school. Unlike in real life, Khan can see everything in the film, an idea that struck him during a visit to a film shooting a few years ago.He invested $5.3 million from his own pocket to make the film, a thriller about a gunman sought by police after a series of killings."I am making this film, if for nothing else, than to show that I can do everything that anyone else can," Khan, who has a leather goods business, told Reuters in Mumbai.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Blind businessman stars as Bollywood film hero
MUMBAI : Naseer Khan, a blind businessman is playing the role of a gunman who fights tigers and jumps off burning cars in "Shadow", a new Bollywood film to be released in August.The 36-year-old lost his sight when he was in school. Unlike in real life, Khan can see everything in the film, an idea that struck him during a visit to a film shooting a few years ago.He invested $5.3 million from his own pocket to make the film, a thriller about a gunman sought by police after a series of killings."I am making this film, if for nothing else, than to show that I can do everything that anyone else can," Khan, who has a leather goods business, told Reuters in Mumbai.
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