MUMBAI: In what look like a breakthrough of sorts, screenwriter Sam Sterling‘s Shakespeare Goes Bollywood aims to bring the stars of Bollywood and Hollywood together?

The film‘s story follows a Bollywood ‘icon‘ arriving in London who, against all odds, wins the lead role in Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet at Stratford-Upon-Avon. While the star brings Bollywood to Shakespeare, he also makes it his mission to return Shakespeare to its ‘spiritual‘ home Bollywood. "After all, if Shakespeare was alive today, he would be writing for Bollywood," quipped Sterling in a statement.

It is said that Sterling was prompted to adapt one of the characters for Brad Pitt after reading an article in which the star pointed out that he would love to work in Bollywood.

"It‘s all so exhilarating - who would have ever thought that one day leading Hollywood stars as Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt, amongst others have reportedly expressed their eagerness to act in a Bollywood movie?" he added.

Hollywood stars including Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kristen Stewart and Catherine Zeta-Jones have evinced interest in working in Bollywood.