'Buddha' gets their young prince Siddhartha!

Exclusively Reported TOI.com acerca consistently and each and every progress on BKModi's larger than life project 'Buddha'. The show recently saw its Mahurat where few names like Kabir Bedi, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Gungun Uprari and Samiksha Singh were revealed.

However, Amit Behl and Surbhi Shukla were the recent one to join the bandwagon of the show. Interestingly, we bring you one more Such interesting name, who would play the little Prince Siddhartha in the magnum opus.

Source informs, "Vedant Dattani", who is currently seen in Star Plus's Saraswatichandra as younger Saras (Gautam Rode) has been zeroed in to play the little Prince Siddhartha in the show."

When Contacted, Vaibhav Dattani (Vedant's father) tried to keep it close.

Well only time will choose who will be crowned as 'The Buddha'. Till then wait and watch the space!

Gautam Rode - Saras

Gautam Rode
Born                 14 August 1977 (age 35)
                        India
Occupation Actor, Model
Years active 2000–Present




Gautam Rode initially started out his acting career in Bollywood with the film Annarth, starring opposite Preeti Jhangiani. He has also done a lot of ads as well as albums. Tere Bina, an album by Abhijeet Bhattacharya which featured Gautam in the music videos, received international acclaim after winning the MTV Asia Awards. This was followed by a long career in television. Gautam's most memorable roles in television have been in Baa Bahoo Aur Baby and in the kid's adventure TV programme Lucky. In Baa Bahoo Aur Baby, Rode played an NRI Anish whom Baby falls in love with, and in Lucky he played the title character, a young con who runs a fake antique shop in Chor Bazaar. He also appeared as a guest in the show Mallika-E-Kitchen's 1st season.
Rode made his Bollywood comeback in 2009 with Ram Gopal Verma's horror flick titled Agyaat where he enacted the role of Sharman, in which he received noteworthy reviews praising his performance. During September 2010, Gautam featured in a first of a kind 16-episodic story for the acclaimed horror show Aahat, titled Maut Ka Khel, which featured 16 popular faces of the Hindi Television Industry. Rode was also hosting India's Got Talent along with Meiyang Chаng, which on airs on Colors TV. Rode has worked in many serials. He also hosted Nach Baliye along with Karan Wahi. Currently, he is playing the lead role of Saraswatichandra in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's show Saraswatichandra on Star Plus.

Filmography
Year  Film                         Role                          Language         Notes
2002 Annarth                 Sameer Deshmukh Hindi
2005 U, Bomsi & Me Sam Mac Patel          Hindi
2009 Agyaat                 Sharman Kapoor Hindi
                Wow                                          Hindi         Not Released

Television
Serials
Year                 Show                                       Role Co-Star                         Channel
2000        Jahan Pyaar Mile                 Rijju                        Zee TV
2005-2007 Baa Bahoo Aur Baby       Anish         Manva Naik                Star Plus
2005        Lucky (Indian TV series)                   Lucky                        Star Plus
2006        Hello Dollie                                                Star Plus
2006        Betiyaan Apni Yaa Paraaya Dhan     Parth Gauri Nigudkar        Star One
2008        Ssshhhh...Phir Koi Hai           Mohan     Divyanka Tripathi        Star One
2008 Simplly Sapney         Karan         Vaibhavi Upadhyay        Zee TV
2008 Rubi                 Kunal Swasti Sinha        9X
2010 Mata Ki Chowki Aman     Muskan Arora        Sahara One
2010 Crime & Bollywood         Don Raghu Anisha Kapur        Zoom tv
2010 Maan Rahe Tera Pitaah        Rajveer Archana Taide        Sony TV
2010 Aahat                 Himself Roshni Chopra        Sony TV
2010-2011 Mera Naam Karegi Roshan             Samvad         Amrapali Dubey        Zee TV
2011 Parichay (TV series)         Vineet Saxena   Mona Vasu        Colors tv
2012 Teri Meri Love Stories               Tarun          Mala Salaria        Star Plus
2013–Present Saraswatichandra                 Saras                Jennifer Winget Star Plus

Reality Shows
Year         Show         Co-Host         Channel
2011 India's Got Talent(Season 3) Meiyang Chаng   Colors TV
2011 ITA Awards 2011 Karishma Tanna Star Plus
2012–2013 Nach Baliye(Season 5) Karan Wahi         Star Plus

Jennifer in saraswati chandra by sanjay leela bhansali

Saraswathichandra
Saraswathichandra is a poignant love story of two soul mates:
Saras (role played by Gautam rode) and Kumud (role of kumud played by Jennifer), who are denied the joy of becoming one by destiny and tradition. Whenever they try to move away from each other, life keeps bringing them together again. Their love story goes through several ups and downs. Eventually Kumud gets married to someone else while Saras, out of unconditional love, decides to take care of her family and fulfil duties as the man in her life. It is a classic tale of love and heart ache, pride and prejudice, of yearning and longing between two people who were so close yet not close enough to two people today who are so far from each other yet not far enough in heart.