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Vishal Bhardwaj’s newest offering, ‘The Blue Umbrella’, premiered at Cinemax in Versova, Mumbai last week. The entire cast of the movie was present, including Pankaj Kapur and child artist . Ajay Devgan also came out to support his director friend; after all, he does owe his success in the magnum opus, ‘Omkara’, to Vishal. Other celebrities present at the event were Irrfan Khan, Manoj Bajpai, and director of ‘Rang De Basanti’, Rakeysh Mehra.

Johnny Depp is confirmed to dance in a song in Mira Nair’s upcoming film Shantaram. The song will be composed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Mira Nair has requested Vishal Bhardwaj to make four tracks with Sufi touch and one Bollywood masala song. A source close to the crew of the film said,

Most of the shooting is likely to take place in the studio and very little of it may happen at actual locations. Depp, it is learnt, may arrive in India after Christmas for the shooting of the film. Mira Nair has asked Amitabh Bachchan who plays a pivotal role in the film to block his dates for the film at that time.

The film is aboutan Australian bank robber and a heroine addict who escape from Pentridge Prison and come to India to live in the Dharavi area of Mumbai. Irrfan Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are expected to play very important roles in the film.