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Although the status on RGV’s version of 'Sholay' is still unknown, he has gone ahead and announced yet another project, 'Nishabd'.

Director Ram Gopal Varma says his latest film is inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel Lolita - but that his characters are driven by love, not sexual obsession.

The main female character is aged 18, not 12 as in the Nabokov novel.

Varma has been toying with this idea since a while, now.

Says his movie will be about a 54-year-old married man, played by the famed Amitabh Bachchan, falling in love with a woman that is the same age as his daughter.

Newcomer Jia will play Bachchan’s love interest. They believe that a new face will make the character more believable.

"If you take out the sexual content, mine is actually an intense love story, which is appealing to the senses," the director was quoted as saying by a leading news paper yesterday.

"It is important to realise that feelings don't age, human bodies do. Any man could be attracted to any woman," Varma said.

While Nakobov’s novel is about a 44-year old man fantasizing about a 12-year old, Varma’s 'Nishabd' is a passionate love story.

The film is expected to go on floors on May 1. The crew plan to complete the shooting in a single schedule.