Majidi to shoot 'Floating Garden' in India

Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi, who is in India for a location recce for his new movie, decided to travel in a suburban train in Mumbai to connect better with the pulse of the city's people.

The film, rumoured to be titled 'Floating Garden', is to be shot across Mumbai, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and Kashmir. 

"It is an Indian story and will take off towards the year-end or early 2017 and is a signature Majidi film with new takes on relationships and emotional quotients." the casting director of the movie told reporters.

This is Majidi's first English feature film, a project the filmmaker decided to start nearly a decade back when he visited Kashmir. 

The film will go on floors here next month. For this, the filmmaker has been visting India very frequently in order to lock down the locations. 

A source added, "Majidi is known for bringing out the most realistic side of human emotions in his films. When he had to go location hunting in the city, he preferred train over car so as to connect with the pulse of the people at the grassroot level".

Leaked pictures trending online all through Thursday hinted that Bollywood star Deepika Padukone is up for a new project with the legendary film maker.

The photo cropped in the twitter showed Deepika donning an entirely non-glamorous look , dressed as a washerwoman.

Iranian doyen Majidi is known for cinematic classics such as Baran, Children Of Heaven, The Colour Of Paradise and The Song Of Sparrows.

Among numerous international honours he has received is a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination for Children Of Heaven in 1999. 

India's Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman had scored music for his magum opus 2015 film "Muhammad: The Message Of God", which was the first of his trilogy on the Prophet's life. 

Iranian maestro's penchant at making aesthetically rich and intricate sagas of human relationships that demand high calibre histrionics from his artists.