Relationship issues being his forte, Ghosh could not have settled for a better theme than the Mahabharata's Draupadi. The intriguing bond the Pandava queen shared with her five husbands is a welcome plot for any director to base his film on.

The grapevine has it that Ghosh's film will revolve round characters like Kunti, Draupadi and Gandhari, who represent `women power'. He is to lend them a contemporary flavour. According to the director, "It is absolutely essential to explore Draupadi, an extension of Kunti, a pivot which perhaps integrates the entire epic."

Set to be a Hindi-English bilingual, the film will have a pan-Asian cast and will roll this year.