Prakash Jha on Aarakshan

Amitabh Bachchan in Aarakshan

Amitabh Bachchan in Aarakshan is playing a college principle as well as father of Depika Padukone.  Amitabh Bachchan is excited about working with Prakash Jha for first time.  In Aarakshan, Amitabh Bachchan has adopted hair style and facial lookup of that of Prakash Jha and Prakash Jha liked this very much.

Amitabh Bachchan is also excited about shooting in Bhopal as Bhopal is his Sasural.

Amitabh Bachchan was quite impressed by people of Bhopal while shooting in Bhopal.

Amitabh Bachchan was very alert when he was going to deliver a long speech on reservation to avoid any controversy.

Saif Ali Khan In Aarakshan

Saif Ali Khan in Aarakshan is apparently playing a lecturer and prusuing PhD in a college and belongs to reserved category.

Saif Ali Khan is excited about Aarakshan as Aarakshan will be his first political thriller and working with Prakash Jha for first time.

Saif and Deepika were used to late for shooting initally, but after told to be on time by Prakash Jha, they were on time.

Saif Ali Khan is also attached to Bhopal emtionally as he also studied in a school in Bhopal for four years.

Interestingly, during shooting of Aarakshan Saif Ali Khan came to knew that his Hindi and Sanskrit is not good enough to justify his role and he worked hard on this.


Interestingly, at the time of Aarakshan, Saif's sister Soha Ali Khan's movie also releasing though it is of low budget and low profile so would not cause any significant problem to Aarakshan.

Aarakshan Music

Aarakshan's music is composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy.  Aarakshan would have four songs and all would appear in movie too unlike of Rajniti where they were mostly promotional.