Sounds impossible? Some what ridiculous? Ok..we understand that after hearing uncountable stories of Raj Thackeray's hardline anti-Hindi stand it's hard for you to believe that not very long ago ( in 2005) he was about to direct a HINDI film starring none other than Amitabh Bachchan.

According to an industry source, Raj Thackeray had attended a film function organized by some production house by the name of Coffee productions at the JW Marriott hotel in 2005 where he had made an announcement that he will be directing a film for Amitabh Bachchan.

But for reasons best known to Raj, his film career did not take off and a film on the same lines got made in the form of Ek Ajnabi that was directed by Apoorva Lakhia. It's worth mentioning that his  sister in law Smita Thackeray is an influential producer in Bollywood.

(With inputs)

(AW-Jyotishman)