Actor Om Puri to play General Zia-Ul-Haq in Hollywood CIA flick

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Veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri will soon appear opposite Hollywood superstars Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks in a movie that sees the Indian star cast in the controversial role of Pakistan’s former military ruler General Muhammed Zia-Ul-Haq.

Puri has bagged the role to play General Zia-Ul-Haq in Hanks’ movie ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’, which details the US spy agency CIA’s role in arming rebels in Afghanistan.

And though the Indian actor is all too well aware of the strained relations between India and Pakistan, he is still eager to act in the film.

Puri revealed that the film was based on the political scenario at the time General Zia was Pakistan’s Head of State.

“The film discusses the entire political scenario of the time. I appear as a well-settled Pakistani President who strikes a deal with the Americans that money and arms to the Afghans must flow through his country,” Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.

General Zia ruled Pakistan from 1977, after seizing power in a bloodless military coup. He died in 1988 in a mysterious plane crash.

— ANI

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