Subhash Ghai on producing Osho biopuc: My involement with the project was inevitable

Veteran producer-director Subhash Ghai, who on Tuesday announced here that his banner Mukta Arts will co-produce a biopic about the controversial Indian guru Osho in collaboration with Rome-based Navala Productions, said his involvement with the upcoming project was inevitable. "I have been reading Osho's writings critically for over 30 years," he told PTI in an exclusive interview in the India Pavilion of the 71st Cannes Film Festival. Ghai added that his 1999 film "Taal", starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Akshaye Khanna, emerged directly from his abiding engagement with Osho. He asserted that the proposed film was not so much a reaction to the successful six-hour Netflix series "Wild Wild Country" as a response to the fact that Osho's life and ideas ever-relevant. "I had always been meaning to make a film on the life and times of Osho, but had decided to wait for the right time," Ghai says.