It’s a dream come true for the actor, who’s currently on a role-shopping spree. He is in serious talks with every big-wig in tinsel town, from Karan Johar to Sajid Nadiadwala. 
It was Ranbir’s father Rishi Kapoor who urged his son to hear the director out. And Ranbir was spellbound. 

"I had my mind and heart set on Ranbir for the role. It’s a role that requires innocence, nobility, idealism, vision and dynamism. It also requires a personality of perfect breeding and gentility. I’d have probably dropped Rajniti if Ranbir hadn’t agreed. I could see he was guarded when we met. But the reserve dissolved when I narrated my script to him. ‘I am doing this,’ is all he said after hearing me out," says Jha. 

 
Ranbir Kapoor is known to be selective about the kind roles he takes up. Where Jha's film is concerned, Ranbir was apparently very guarded about taking it up but immediately gave Jha a nod after hearing the script. 

When asked how he felt about Ranbir Kapoor being a part of his ew project, Prakash Jaha said, "I had my mind and heart set on Ranbir for the role. It's a role that requires innocence, nobility, idealism, vision and dynamism. It also requires a personality of perfect breeding and gentility. I'd have probably dropped Rajniti if Ranbir hadn't agreed.  I could see he was guarded when we met. But the reserve dissolved when I narrated my script to him. 'I am doing this,' is all he said after hearing me out,"
 
The role would require Ranbir to go through a gamut of cultural and chronological changes. In Rajniti, he would first play a young Indian student studying in a foreign university with a Caucasian girlfriend. The character then undergoes a mammoth metamorphosis as he's summoned back to Delhi to take over the family's political empire after a gruesome tragedy.

Jha is currently looking at three top young international actresses to play Ranbir’s companion. "The heroine won't be a non-descript model or TV actress posing as a big star for a Bollywood film. The actress opposite Ranbir will be a top-of-the-line name."

Earlier on movies on political personalities ran into serious trouble.Director Jagmohan  Mundhra was forced to drop plans to make a bio-pic on Sonia Gandhi due to political  pressure. But Prakash Jha does not seem to be deterred by the past predicaments of political films and sees no hurdles 0to his film. Inf fact when quizzed about this fact, Jha said, "Ranbir exudes an aura of dignity and calm. He will make Rajniti credible and convincing."

Jha sees no hurdles to his film even though earlier, movies on political personalities have ran into serious trouble. Director Jagmohan Mundhra was forced to drop plans to make a bio-pic on Sonia Gandhi with Monica Belluci in the lead due to political pressure. "Ranbir exudes an aura of dignity and calm. He will make Rajniti credible and convincing," says an unperturbed Jha.
 

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