Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai, who is rumored to play the bond girl in
Bond 21, has signed up to play the lead role in
Chaos.
Rai, the highest paid actress in Bollywood, will be joined by Meryl Streep in the movie. The duo will make this the first movie to both star an A-List Hollywood star and an A-List Bollywood star in a major production.
Chaos is the English remake of critically acclaimed French director Coline Serreau's social drama revolving around a bourgeois French couple who accidentally witness the violent beating of a young prostitute (Rai) by her pimps. While the French woman (Streep) empathizes with the prostitute's suffering, her selfish husband disapproves of his wife's concern.
Troubled by guilt, Streep's character traces the prostitute to the hospital where she is recovering from the beating and the two gradually develop a deep bond. The French woman helps the prostitute find a new life, and the prostitute helps the woman find a new identity -- she realizes that her life has been changed forever and she can never return to her selfish husband and son.
Movie producers, according to the
Vancouver Sun, are scouting locations in Vancouver, Canada for the movie, although no final decision has been made.