The actor's remake of the Hollywood blockbuster is Bollywood's most ambitious adaptation yet.
Bollywood star Aamir Khan waited for a decade to secure the rights of the 1994 Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump.
During the first script reading, the makers set up some chairs in a room trying to recreate the atmosphere of a train. Laal Singh Chaddha is like a "cover song of a genuinely loved classic", says Chandan. Although Forrest Gump is a quintessentially American film, he says it is a "universal story, which we could bring an Indian flavour to."
The film, keeping with Bollywood's love for musicals, is loaded with songs. "If a film does not have songs, it does not feel Indian to me," says Chandan. "The songs in the film reflect Laal's feelings, evoking the same emotional response in the audience." In the original, Gump sits on the bench at a bus stop for most of the time and tells the story of his life to strangers. In the Bollywood remake, the director has swapped the bus stop for a train station - Chaddha tells his story to gathering passengers on a train journey.
Khan's adaptation appears to have avoided the moral ambiguity and portrayed Rupa as a woman with a troubled childhood and unfulfilled ambitions of becoming a Bollywood star.Chaddha is also an exploration of India, say the filmmakers. Like Gump, Chaddha is shown running across the country: the film was shot in over a hundred different locations - many of them not so well-known, like an "epic" nature park in the southern state of Kerala.
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