New Delhi: Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who was to appear in the role of Sonia Gandhi in a shelved movie, may come to Delhi next month to meet the
Congress chief and attend an International women's film festival.
"We have written a letter to Gandhi seeking Monica's appointment with her. If that is granted, there is every possibility that the actress makes it to Delhi for three days on December 17," festival director Shyamali Deb said.
Monica was to have appeared in the role of Sonia in a film US-based Indian director Jagmohan Mundra had proposed to make.
But his project had to be set aside following reservations by Congress which said the movie is based on her autobiography sanctioned neither by her nor the party.
Deb, however, said, that Hollywood's Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway has confirmed her participation in the week-long festival scheduled to start on December 11.
Deb said efforts continued to rope in another Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman, whose latest movie Fur made waves at the Rome festival, for the festival here.
Veteran actress Rekha will be given a lifetime achievement award at the festival where 130 films from across the world are expected to be screened in different sections, including a competitive one.
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