Big B’s Budda, not Buddha

Actor Amitabh Bachchan has clarified that he is not playing the role of Gautam Buddha in Puri Jagannathan’s film Budda.

Amitabh Bachchan

Actor Amitabh Bachchan has clarified that he is not playing the role of Gautam Buddha in Puri Jagannathan’s film

Budda

.

“The media thinks that my next film with Puri is on Gautam Buddha, because its title is

Budda

, which means an old man and not Gautam Buddha,” Big B wrote on his blog

bigb.biggadda.com

. “Either they misunderstood the title because of the spelling or they mixed the other news of Vivek Sharma wishing to make a film titled

Buddham Sharanam Gachchami

with me,” he added.