Bhutto family cold to Indian media house planning film on her

Dubai, June 13 (PTI) The family of slain Pakistani
leader Benazir Bhutto has said that it would not give any help
to an Indian production house planning to produce a film on
her but acknowledged that it cannot stop anyone from producing
a movie.
In the backdrop of reports that a Mumbai-based
production house was producing the film in which Aishwarya Rai
may play Benazir's role, a lawyer for her husband Asif Ali
Zardari said Friday that the family would not provide any help
for the project.
The lawyer, Ashish Mehta, said that a documentary on the
life of Benazir who was assassinated in Rawalpindi in December
last year was currently being made by a U.S. production house.
A spokesman for her Pakistan People's Party (P.P.P.)
Farhatullah Babar said that the documentary has been okayed by
by Benazir herself during her lifetime.
"...as far as we are concerned, this is the only official
documentary that we are currently assisting in production,"
Babar told Khaleej Times.
"We cannot, however, stop anyone from going ahead and
making a film, but this will definitely not receive any
support from us," he said.
Babar also said that two other international production
houses had approached the family with similar proposals, but
they too had been rejected.
Noted Indian filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt had also announced a
film Benazir and had approached the family in January this
year.
"After we objected to the film, he was cooperative and
said he wouldn't make the movie until he gets the consent of
the family," Mehta said.