Danish's fury. The duo parts ways; Danish plays a mute person in his next film, while Amitabh dubs for another actor in a different film. Both films fail. Akshara makes both Amitabh and Danish realise they are nothing without each other and gets them together for a film titled Sorry, which she is directing. Meanwhile, Akshara and Danish tell that they like each other. While Amitabh and Danish are on the way to the venue of the press meet for Sorry, a car accident occurs; Danish is killed while Amitabh's larynx is damaged, making him mute. Some time later, Amitabh paces around Danish's grave with the script of Sorry, imagining that Danish is still alive and practising his lines for the film. Cast Amitabh Bachchan as Amitabh Sinha/Robert Dhanush as Danish/Shamitabh Akshara Haasan as Akshara Pandey Ivan Rodrigues as Anay Verma Rukmini Vijayakumar as herself Rekha as herself Abhinaya as herself Abhimanyu Chaudhary as reporter Rajeev Ravindranathan as a media reporter Uday Tikekar as Dr.Pandey Cameo appearances Rohit Shetty Abhishek Bachchan Karan Johar Mahesh Bhatt Anurag Basu Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Rajkumar Hirani Gauri Shinde Javed Akhtar Boney Kapoor Ekta Kapoor Vandita Shrivastava Tanuka Laghate Arun Shekhar as writer Ujjawal Gauraha as Superstar Production Development In August 2013, reports announced that Dhanush would play the lead role in R. Balki's next film. But Balki denied them as rumors, citing that they may have arisen when he had shot for an advertisement featuring. In November 2013, Bachchan and Dhanush were announced as stars. The film also marked the acting debut of Kamal Haasan's second daughter, Akshara Haasan. In addition to portraying one of the film's central characters, Bachchan had also bankrolled the venture. In May 2014, Balki revealed that the film would be titled Shamitabh, which also sounded similar to the Bollywood star's name, whilst also revealing that half the film's shooting had been completed. Bachchan lent his voice to Dhanush, who plays a dumb aspiring actor in the film. The film's title derived from the duo's names in which 'Sh' from Dhanush was added as a prefix to Amitabh, therefore becoming Shamitabh. Casting Besides the lead cast, it was confirmed in February 2014 that actor Rajeev Ravindranathan would appear in a small role in the film. Rajeev confirmed the same again in July 2014. In August 2014, it was reported that director Mahesh Bhatt had acted in a cameo role in