Big B-Arjun-Preity film in September

Big B and Preity Zinta may have embarked on their UNFORGETTABLES tour but when they are back in a few weeks from now, they would be holding the center stage once again. This time it would be for the big screen as their art-house film THE LAST LEAR has finally closed on a release date for itself. A Planman Motion Pictures' production, THE LAST LEAR has now been confirmed for 12th September.

Based on Utpal Dutt's play 'Aajker Shahjahan', THE LAST LEAR is a film in the English language and is directed by Rituparno Ghosh whose Bengali film KHELA released in the week gone by). Apart from Big B and Preity Zinta, the film also stars Arjun Rampal in a key role (who goes offbeat for the second time after MOKSHA). Others in the starcast are Shefali Chhaya, Divya Dutta, Jishu Sengupta and Prosenjit.

Stated to be one of the most challenging roles that Amitabh Bachchan has ever portrayed, the film features him in a part where he acts as an aging Shakespearean actor who takes on one of the bard's most challenging roles.