earlier in the day, Sunny Deol’s much awaited film revealed, Lahore 1947has been renamed apportionment. Now we have learned that the rights of the title were with the family of late producer Salim Akhtar and Aamir Khan had acquired the rights from them.
Exclusive: How Lahore 1947 became Partition – Aamir Khan’s personal meeting with Salim Akhtar’s family sealed the deal
A source told “The film team was clear that they did not want to name the film Lahore 1947. they locked batwara 1947 First of all. But then they all came to the conclusion that the film should be named just this apportionment. However, removing 1947 and just maintain apportionment This would mean securing title rights.”
The source further added, “The team learned that Salim Akhtar’s family owned the rights to the title since the producer made it apportionment (1989). Veteran filmmaker Karim Morani helped arrange the meeting between Aamir Khan and Salim Akhtar’s son Samad. Actually, Aamir went to Samad’s house and also met his mother and Salim Sahab’s wife Shama.
The source further added, “The meeting was very fruitful. Aamir told the family about his wonderful experience working with Salim Akhtar bet (1995). He also told them about his film and its title apportionment Appropriate for the topic. The Akhtar family understood his point and thus, they sold the rights to Aamir for a certain amount.
Interestingly, on March 8, Samad Akhtar had uploaded a picture of himself with Aamir Khan. In the caption, he mentioned that the superstar came to his house and surprised him with his deep passion and knowledge about cricket. Samad also gifted him a jersey from his sports shop, 7S Sports World.
1989 film apportionment It was directed by J.P. Dutta Limit (1997) and refugee (2000) fame and starring Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Amrita Singh, Poonam Dhillon, Mohsin Khan, Shammi Kapoor and Asha Parekh.
As far as Aamir Khan is concerned apportionmentPartition saga reunites Sunny Deol and Rajkumar Santoshi. Aamir will also be seen in a supporting role in the film and it also stars Preity Zinta, Ali Fazal, Karan Deol and Shabana Azmi.
