Karan Johar had always shown a keen interest to adapt Amish Tripathi's best selling book for the big screen.
Karan Johar's 'Dharma Productions' has acquired the film rights of Amish Tripathi's top- seller book, "The Immortals of Meluha". The book had attracted grabbed a lot of media attention since Amish announced he was on the lookout for a producer to adapt his book. Producers from Hollywood and Bollywood were vying for the film rights, after he launched his second book in the Shiva Trilogy, "The Secret of the Nagas".

Says an insider, "Karan credits the buying to the CEO of Dharma Productions, Apurva Mehta, who had been negotiating for the book rights for months." The emotional content and the love story between Shiva and Parvati are very strong elements in the novel. Karan will look into finer details, apart from the screenplay. Since it deals with religion and mythology he will make sure that the subject will be treated with sensitivity.

That search has now ended. Says an elated Amish, "I believe that my books are successful as I am true believer in Lord Shiva's blessings.If one wants to tell His story, it can only be done with intense passion and commitment. And that is what I saw in Dharma Productions towards "The Immortals of Meluha". I believe that my book is in very safe hands with Karan and his team."

Says Karan, "I was blown away with the world of Meluha and was totally engrossed in the book. I think the book lends itself beautifully for celluloid and we are very excited to promote Amish's book effectively." Now the big question is who is going to direct a film of this magnitude from Dharma and which big stars will play the roles of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati?