Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali , who is currently busy with the shooting of his forthcoming historical drama Padmavati featuring Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh in principal roles, has apparently bought the rights of popular writer Amish Tripathi’s best-selling novel, The Immortals of Meluha – a retelling of the legend of Lord Shiva, to adapt it into a film. If the news is true, it will be another magnum opus coming from the stable of SLB.

The Immortals of Meluha is the first novel of the Shiva trilogy series. Published in February 2010, the book turned out to be a best seller and a commercial success within days of its release. Two years later, Dharma Productions’ head honcho Karan Johar reportedly bought the rights of the book to make a film but the project could never took off due to various reasons. But with Sanjay Leela Bhansali at the helm of the affairs, we are sure the film will turn out to as grand and magnificent as previous projects of the filmmaker.