Showing posts with label Safar. Show all posts
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Sunny Deol's Safar shifts to theatrical release instead of OTT
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Sunny Deol to bring ‘Safar’, initially planned as an OTT release, to theatres as it is among his finest performances
Upala KBR (MID-DAY; August 13, 2025)
Be it Gadar 2: The Katha Continues (2023) or Jaat, Sunny Deol’s fans have relished watching him as a one-man army in his last two big-screen action entertainers. Would an understated drama that sees him as a family man have the same draw in theatres? Deol hopes so. mid-day has learnt that the actor — whose next, tentatively titled Safar, was originally planned as an OTT release — is now set to bring it to cinemas by the year-end.
What brought on the change of heart? Apparently, the actor considers his performance in Shashank Udapurkar’s directorial ventures as his career-best and wants it to reach a wide audience.
A source reveals, “Sunny has shown Safar to many of his close friends, including Rajkumar Santoshi, Abbas-Mustan, and Rahul Nanda. They have all loved it, with many opining that the film will do for him what Satyakam [1969] did for his father, Dharmendra. A couple of months ago, Safar’s digital release was finalized, but Sunny’s friends convinced him to take the theatrical route instead.”
Also starring Simran Bagga, Safar sees Deol as a middle-aged man who decides to live the rest of his life in service of humanity. The senior actor wants to be fully involved in charting out its release plans.
The source adds, “The makers and Sunny will decide the marketing plan, publicity strategy, and release date after the star returns from the US this week. They are eyeing a November or December release.”
Sunny Deol to play a family man in upcoming OTT release tentatively titled Safar
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In a departure from his action-oriented roles, Sunny Deol plays a quiet family man in Safar; sources say the film to bypass theatres for a web release
Upala KBR (MID-DAY; March 19, 2025)
Much excitement is being drummed up around Sunny Deol’s April release, Jaat, which marks his next big-screen outing after the mammoth success of Gadar 2: The Katha Continues (2023). But few know that the actor has another movie, tentatively titled Safar, in the pipeline. mid-day has learnt that director Shashank Udapurkar’s family drama sees Deol in an avatar far removed from his macho image—he plays a family man who, through circumstances, learns to live life to the fullest. Given the nature of the subject, the makers are apparently skipping the theatrical route and pursuing an OTT release.
Also starring Simran Bagga and Darshan Jariwala, Safar’s shoot was wrapped up in 2024. Currently, producer Vishal Rana is in talks with a few streamers for its direct-to-OTT release.
A source reveals, “After the success of Gadar 2, Sunny signed many actioners as the audience likes to see him in larger-than-life roles, where he single-handedly takes on the baddies and doles out punchy dialogues. Safar is a departure from that image. There is no action in the film; it revolves around Sunny’s middle-aged family man, who realizes that one can find happiness only by helping people and learns the true meaning of life. When Vishal and Shashank approached him with the story, he loved it and said yes immediately, despite knowing that it’s nothing like what his fan base expects from him.”
Udapurkar, who previously helmed the Hindi film Anna (2016) and the Marathi offering Prawaas (2020), wanted to explore a different facet to Deol’s on-screen persona with Safar. One would expect the makers to eye a theatrical release, considering their leading man is riding the success wave.
The source, however, notes, “The makers decided to have an OTT release because it’s an intimate and heartfelt story about a family. They felt such subjects are more conducive for a digital platform. The team should be able to lock an OTT platform by June and hopes to release it by the year-end.”
Remember that viral video?
In December 2023, a video, which saw Sunny Deol roaming the streets of Juhu in a seemingly inebriated state, had gone viral. When fans expressed concern, the actor had clarified on social media that he was not intoxicated, but shooting for a film. The sequence was, in fact, part of the upcoming Safar.
Today’s heroines have a better chance in Bollywood-Sharmila Tagore
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MUMBAI MIRROR (October 26, 2017)
Sharmila Tagore, who was honoured on Tuesday with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Delhi’s Siri Fort Auditorium, said on the sidelines of the event that the life of a heroine during her hey days was not so exciting.
“During our times, it was nothing better than a good cry. We had to all look helpless...so, I think these people (heroines today) are having much more fun,” the veteran actress was recently quoted as saying.
Recounting the time when she played leading lady roles, Tagore added that heroines couldn’t be bad so it was the characters with negative or grey overtones who would be. “So Helen had all the fun. Also, we were working in three or four films at a time. So, maintaining a continuity was difficult because today Aamir Khan can put on and lose weight... we couldn’t do all that,” she added.
Talking about her repertoire of films, she said, “I like Safar and Mausam. People really like Amar Prem and Aradhana. The shelf life of these films is still there... but my favourite are the first two.”
About her favourite co-star, she said, “I liked Shashi (Kapoor) very much. He’s a friend. Of course, with Rajesh Khanna ji (Aaradhna, Amar Prem, Chhoti Bahu, Safar) I gave several hits, and Dharmendra (Mere Humdum Mere Dost, Chupke Chupke, Anupama, Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka, among others).”
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