Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi Pednekar to romance the Chambal ravines in Abhishek Chaubey's next?
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Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; August 3, 2017)
Mirror (May 12) was the first to report that after Abhishek Chaubey’s 2016 drug-drama, Udta Punjab, which had featured Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor and Diljit Dosanjh, his next film revolves around Chambal dacoits and is set in the 1970s with Sushant Singh Rajput in the lead. Now, we have learnt that the film, produced by Ronnie Screwvala, will have Bhumi Pednekar as his leading lady.
“Like Sushant, Bhumi too plays a dacoit. She plays his love interest and gave the nod a month ago. The film will be shot in the Chambal ravines and will roll early next year. Abhishek and his team has already begun scouting for locations,” informs a source close to the development.
Sudip Sharma, who has cowritten the film with the 40-yearold filmmaker, had earlier informed Mirror (June 3) that he had visited Chambal for the initial research and met some reformed dacoits from the time. “Some of them have more than 80 murder charges on them. Everyone has heard horror stories about the dacoits of Chambal but I’ve realised the reality is quite different from what Hindi films portray. We aim to capture that reality,” he had said.
Bhumi who made her Bollywood debut with a 2015 romcom is on a roll. Besides the forthcoming Toilet: Ek Prem Katha with Akshay Kumar and Shubh Mangal Savdhan with her first costar, Ayushmann Khurrana, the 28-year-old actress will also feature in Zoya Akhtar’s next which is part of an anthology of four shorts directed by her, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, and Dibakar Banerjee. Sushant, who has just returned from a trip to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is prepping up for Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan’s space-adventure Chanda Mama Door Ke. He will soon kick off Abhishek Kapoor’s Kedarnath with Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh’s daughter Sara Ali Khan.
This entry was posted on October 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm, and is filed under
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