The film is being made by respected Bollywood director Raj Kumar Santoshi.
Yoshitaro Nomura, famed Japanese director of suspense thrillers such as Castle of Sand, has died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. He was 85.
He had been in hospital since March 22 and passed away last Friday, news reports said.
Nomura, born to a film director, served in World War II and entered the cinema world in 1946, becoming an assistant director working under late Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa and others.
He made his debut as director in 1952 with Pigeon. His 1974 suspense thriller Castle of Sand was widely praised and won the special prize from juries at the Moscow International Film festival the following year.
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