Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; April 2, 2018)

After Shoojit Sircar’s National Award-winning 2016 film Pink, Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu are set to reunite for Sujoy Ghosh’s next directorial. While shooting for the courtroom drama, the actress had impressed the Big B by pulling off a 13-page scene in one take.

“The film produced by Sunir Kheterpal is tentatively titled Badla. A crime thriller, it is expected to roll in mid-June. Mr Bachchan has liked the script but is yet to sign on the dotted line but Taapsee has already committed to the project. The makers have already started work on the prep,” informs a source close to the development.

Sujoy had earlier directed the 75-year-old veteran in his 2009 fantasy-adventure, Aladin, which also featured Riteish Deshmukh and Jacqueline Fernandez, and had produced Ribhu Dasgupta’s 2016 thriller Te3n with Big B, Vidya Balan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Bachchan’s next is Umesh Shukla’s 102 Not Out with Rishi Kapoor while Taapsee has been shooting for Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan with Abhishek Bachchan and Vicky Kaushal.