Has Aamir Khan backed out of Netflix's Osho project?

By Rahul Raut

on December 21, 2018

After the disastrous debacle of Thugs Of Hindostan, Aamir Khan has become more concerned about what he wants to do next. Apparently, he is reconsidering the projects that he had verbally green signalled earlier and is now looking for more fresh projects that are commercial as well as high in concept. The actor has already walked out of Bhushan Kumar's biopic film on his late father Gulshan Kumar after its director Subhash Kapoor got embroiled in sexual misconduct allegations, and now we heard he has left one more project that he was supposed to dive into next. Peepingmoon.com has learnt that Aamir has backed out of Shakun Batra's Netflix mini-series based on controversial godman, Bhagwaan Rajneesh, popularly known as Osho. The actor who earlier had greenlighted the project on a verbal note distanced himself after Netflix couldn't agree to his demand. Apparently, Aamir asked for a price so high that it scared off the streaming giant. The discussions are still on but Aamir is not willing to budge on his quoted price which has left Netflix with no option but to let go Aamir out of the series, informed a source.

File photo of Aamir Khan.

However, Aamir's outlet has not affected the project which is still under the scripting stage, assures the source. Netflix has asked the director to complete the script anyway and approach a different actor to take the lead. When asked about Alia Bhatt who was being considered for the role of Osho's most notorious secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, the source told us that she is still in talks and hasn't signed on the dotted line yet.

Bhagwaan Rajneesh, popularly known as Osho

This mini-series on Osho is said to be a dream project for Shakun Batra who is working on it for last one year. Talking about it, the Kapoor & Sons director recently said, "It is a very ambitious project and it will need time and efforts and energy and right kind of infrastructure and people to fall in place. For me, it is a subject that is close to me. I hope whenever it happens, it happens at the right time. But whatever he (Osho) spoke about, whatever he said, was timeless. It has to come up."