The brother of actress Afshan Azad, who starred in Harry Potter, was on Friday jailed for six months for a “prolonged and nasty” attack in which she was beaten and branded a “slag” for dating a Hindu man.
Azad, 21, who played Padma Patil, a classmate of the teenage wizard, in the blockbuster Hollywood film series based on J.K. Rowling’s children’s books, feared for her life during the three-hour ordeal, Manchester crown court heard.
***
Movie on Saddam’s novel soon
London: A love story penned by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is set to get the Hollywood treatment.
Paramount Pictures are readying a film based on the book Zabibah and the King and Bruno star Sacha baron Cohen is in talks to star in the film, reported Sun online.
The Dictator, according to the studio will tell “the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed”.
The story of a powerful medieval ruler who falls in love with a commoner, was a best-seller in Iraq when it released in 2000 and is among the four books that Hussein wrote during his life, said the newspaper in its report. —PTI