RT Monitoring Desk
Mumbai: Not too many people know that Indian film actress Shabana Azmi was once supposed to play Benazir Bhutto in a film to be directed by noted British Pakistani author playwright and filmmaker Tariq Ali.
Tariq Ali, had readied screenplay in 1982-83 for his proposed Benazir biopic with Shabana in lead. Shabana had begun to prepare for the part, studying Benazir's body language and also getting required haircut to look completely credible. But then politics intervened. Because of differences between India and Pakistan, the project was quietly abandoned. Shabana was disappointed.
``I know I can physically resemble Benazir. Once that is in place, rest would just follow,'' she had admitted at that time.