Guwahati, Aug.29 : A professor with a premier institute of technology in Guwahati is an unusually happy man these days, as his specially developed bicycle is all set to feature in a sequel of the Bollywood movie "Munnabhai MBBS".

Professor Amarendra Kumar Das has developed a bicycle with a detachable side car for rural folk in Assam.

Professor Das says: "Our actual objective was to give it to people who matter. In this case, it was the rural population. Various NGO's and funding agencies will be putting it on the market so that rural people get benefited."

Professor Das says he had no inkling about his bicycle attracting Rajinder Kumar Hirani, the director of the Sanjay Dutt-starrer Munnabhai MBBS.

Das says that Hirani approached him at an exhibition in Mumbai, and expressed his desire to use the bicycle in his forthcoming movie.

Das says: "It was utter surprise to see the bicycle attracting popular Film Director Rajkumar Hirani He was keen to take it immediately for his shooting, but we could not give it to him because it is the first prototype. We assured him to give it a much better shape."

The special bicycle has a third wheel attached to it to support a foldable carrier. The carrier will be useful in carrying an extra person or some belongings.

The cycle has also caught the fancy of the children in the town.

"I can visualize Sanjay Dutt riding the bicycle with 'Circuit' (Arshad Warsi) sitting on the side car, and when I sit on the cycle, I feel like Sanjay Dutt and, it feels like I am enacting a scene," said Richa Bharti, a student.

Rajkumar Hirani's "Munnabhai MBBS" and its sequel "Lage Raho Munnabhai" (Carry on Munnabhai) were runaway hits.

There are plans to use the bicycle in the film "Munnabhai Chale America". The film is about a character who wants to transform others' lives by performing different roles.

The cycle's attachment costs 15,000 rupees (364.60 dollars). Das hopes his creation will be a major hit with the poor, and adds that "if Sanjay Dutt uses it, it is bound to have a greater reach".