Saif Ali Khan and Ileana D`Cruz to team up again?
Updated on: 22 November, 2017 12:00 PM IST |

The last time we saw Saif Ali Khan and Ileana D’Cruz team up for a film was in 2014’s ‘Happy Ending’ directed by Raj and DK. The movie may have tanked at the box-office but Saif and Ileana’s pairing was well-received and the two actors genuinely appreciate working with each other.
As per reports currently, the two have now been approached to star in the biopic of Uzma Ahmed. For those not in the know, Uzma Ahmed was an Indian citizen, who fell for Tahir Ali, a Pakistani, without realizing that he already had four children from a previous marriage. On finding out, she was forced to marry at gunpoint and was sexually assaulted for days, till she subsequently fled to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. How the governments of both countries including a significant contribution by the Union Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, helped Uzma return to India is what the bio-pic will be about.
Director of the film Shivam Nair quoted, "Yes, we are in talks with Saif. We are in the final stages of scripting and then, we will take the final call. Saif will be the main male lead if he says yes."
He further said, "Along with Uzma’s story, our story is also about a diplomat in the Indian embassy and the Union Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj. The character is of an Indian diplomat who’s there in Pakistan, and how he handles the whole case. When the girl is inside the Embassy, he is the one helping and taking care of her. We only know about Uzma and her story. People don’t know much about the role of this diplomat.It’s a positive role. That’s the major part of the story. The diplomat and the girl to be rescued are the lead roles."
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