Mirror (September 30) was the first to report that Salman Khan is all set to return to work and resume shooting for his action-thriller Radhe, with a 15-day schedule kicking off at ND Studios in Karjat. On Saturday, the actor’s leading lady, Disha Patani, took off from Mumbai to start work on the Prabhudheva-directorial, after a six-month hiatus owing to the coronavirus-triggered pandemic. The next morning, she announced that she was gearing up to film a song for the action-thriller. Before the pandemic brought shoots to a halt, Radhe had one song and some action scenes left to be shot. The makers had even discussed scrapping the song altogether, but now we’ve learnt that it’s being filmed in Aamby Valley, near Lonavla.

“After shooting for some cop-centric dramatic scenes at N D Studios on October 2 and 3, the team is now in location for a romantic song featuring Salman and Disha,” revealed a source close to the development, adding that the initial plan was for the team to fly to Azerbaijan for the shoot. However, with a war raging in Azerbaijan and travel to foreign lands still restricted, producers Sohail Khan and Atul Agnihotri decided to stay close to home, keeping everyone’s safety in mind.

“The location is not densely populated, but is naturally picturesque; the song will be shot with wide angle shots of the mountains in the background. It’s a two-day shoot featuring the lead pair, after which Salman returns to N D Studios again for 10 days, before moving to Bandra’s Mehboob Studios for the patchwork,” shared the source, adding that Disha had been rehearsing for three days in a dance studio in Mumbai, before heading to the location,.

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Salman Khan has dived deep into work after the unforeseen seven-month break — only days after he filmed the opening episode of Bigg Boss 14, the actor resumed the shoot of Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai on Sunday. While the team of the Prabhudheva-directed venture kicked off the schedule at ND Studios on October 1 sans Khan, the superstar and his leading lady Disha Patani drove down to Aamby Valley over the weekend to begin their stint with a romantic dance track.

The song was to be shot originally in Thailand, but has now been reimagined by choreographer Caesar Gonsalves. "Over the next four days, Salman and Disha will film the dance number in the beautiful locales of the resort township and Lonavala. The makers have adopted the bio-bubble mode, and put up the cast and crew in chalets in Aamby Valley, thus isolating them from the outside world. After the song is wrapped up, the unit will shift to Mehboob Studios in Bandra for patchwork shoot. The makers are hoping to call it a wrap by October 12," reveals a source close to the film's unit. The superstar, who will honour the film's commitment through the week, will travel to Film City on Fridays to shoot for Bigg Boss' Weekend Ka Vaar.

Before the Aamby Valley leg, producers Atul Agnihotri, Sohail Khan and Nikhil Namit supervised the four-day schedule at N D Studios in Karjat. The source adds, "On the agenda was the filming of some crucial confrontation scenes with Jackie Shroff, Gautam Gulati, and South actors Bharath Niwas and Megha Akash, who play Salman's colleagues in the cop caper. Since the sequences are set at the CBI [Central Bureau of Investigation] office, the makers wanted to shoot them at the live location, but it wasn't possible under the current circumstances. So, the production design team recreated a crime branch at the studio."