A top Bollywood star is to take on the role of a Jewish gambler in Baz Luhrmann's £78 million film adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Amitabh Bachchan will appear as Meyer Wolfsheim, a shadowy and untrustworthy figure said to have fixed the baseball World Series.
Author F Scott Fitzgerald allegedly based this "small, flatnosed Jew" on New York crime kingpin Arnold Rothstein, the younger brother of a rabbi.
Rothstein was said to be behind the scandal of match-fixing at the 1919 World Series.
