Salman Khan to star in Ode To My Father remake

Salman Khan

CJ Entertainment has sold the official remake rights of the Korean blockbuster film Ode To My Father to Atul Agnihotri, who will soon make the film and Salman Khan will be in the lead role.

The film is currently in the pre-production stage and the producers are planning to set it against the backdrop of India - Pakistan partition in 1947.

The story of film Ode To My Father is about a young boy's promise made during the chaos of the Korean War to take care of his family, which ends up spanning 60 years of turbulent modern history.