Bachchans front Bollywood film on power plant debacle

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

MUMBAI (AFP) — In the first on-screen appearance with her husband since getting married, Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan takes the lead as a powerful executive in Sarkar Raj (Absolute Ruler).

The film that will also star her father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan, and her husband, Abhishek Bachchan, will hit the screens on June 6, the film's director said at a press conference Monday.

Sarkar Raj is loosely based on the controversy around an Enron power plant built in India's western state of Maharashtra a decade ago.

Director Ram Gopal Varma however defended the movie as original.

It "has no reference point and was a completely original script," Varma said, according to the Press Trust of India.

Yet the promos of Sarkar Raj show a striking...