Kamal to hunt for Buddha’s tooth?

back links What’s Kamal Hassan up to these days? After the success of his Unnaipol Oruvan, the master actor has started the paper work on his next project. The film as we had told you some time back, will be directed by Mysskin.

Now according to local press, the film is based on the legends of Lord Buddha’s tooth, which is in Kandy, Sri Lanka in the Temple of Tooth. There is a story on how Buddha’s tooth came to Sri Lanka and how many people died in wars fought over it. Mysskin has based his story on this historic event, and feels it will make a good period drama.

Meanwhile the grapevine has it that Kamal has gone to US, to meet with a couple of prospective Hollywood studio bosses to fund this mammoth big budget epic. Remember some years back Steven Spielberg had an idea to make a similar epic period film based on Buddha’s Tooth, with Harrison Ford in the lead?

Let us hope Kamal is lucky a third time to start a period drama after his Maruthanayagan and Marmayogi were shelved. Unless the film is made in major languages across India, along with an abridged international version, the film will not be feasible.