Real to reel personas of Bollywood

Published on Jun 05, 2008  |  01:08 AM IST |  2.8M

Ab Tak Chappan features Nana Patekar as Crime Branch cop Sadhu Agashe, reportedly structured around encounter specialist Daya Nayak.
Anurag Basu's gripping Gangster starring Shiney Ahuja, Kangana Ranaut and Emraan Hashmi revolves around a underworld guy and his unspoken affections for a girl he rescues, is rumoured to be influenced by gangster Abu Salem and starlet Monica Bedi's liason.

Mahesh Bhatt's fixation with former girlfriend, Parveen Babi and her mysterious, bizarre ways, is quite well-known.In Woh Lamhe, Kangana plays Sana Azim, a successful actress suffering from extreme hallucination and depression whereas Shiney Ahuja pitches in as the sympathetic filmmaker, patterned around Bhatt himself.

Inspired by the real life incidents in hockey player turned coach Mir Ranjan Negi's life, Shimit Amin's Chak De! India was hailed by one and all.

it is widely believed that Guru is a fictional account of legendary industrialist and Reliance tycoon's Dhirubhai Ambani's rag-to-riches story.

While RGV denies it, speculation continues if Enron's former Vice-Chairman, Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche is the inspiration for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's Anita Rajan in Sarkar Raj, which opens in the theatres on June 6.

Credits: rediff.com

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