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| Thousands sign appeal for not throwing Leonardo DiCaprio in Rumi |
Thousands of people have signed a petition for not casting actor Leonardo Dicaprio as a protagonist in a biopic of the Persian poet Rumi.
The agitators have demanded the producers to drop The Revenant actor’s name from the list and cast a Middle eastern actor to play the poet.
Currently, the name of the 41-year-old The Wolf of the Wall Street actor is doing rounds for the lead role while the Iron man actor Robert Downey Jr in second lead as Iranian mystic Shams of Tabriz.
The controversy evoked when the film’s screenwriter David Franzoni disclosed his casting plans, in an interview with the Guardian.
