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Sara Ali Khan to star opposite Varun Dhawan in ‘Rannbhoomi’?

Director Shashank Khaitan announced a few months ago that he is planning on making an epic warrior film ‘Rannbhoomi’, which will give audiences an unique experience.

Reported on Asian Age, speculation has been doing the rounds that Sara Ali Khan will be part of the cast alongside Varun Dhawan, but Khaitan rubbished rumours, saying “No one is finalised. The story is in place, work on the screenplay is on. We will get down to casting once we are completely done with writing so that we can give proper narration as opposed to a one-liner.”

Khaitan who will be teaming up with Karan Johar for this project, believes this particular genre hasn’t been fully explored in Indian cinema, referencing ‘Baahubali’ (2015) setting the precedence. “‘Baahubali’ is an example of a warrior film, it is an Indian film. We have explored that space in Hindi cinema with ‘Jodha Akbar’, ‘Padmaavat’, but we have not gone all out. The opportunity we are seeking right now is to create something new and be remembered for it. It is a great opportunity to have Karan backing it, and Varun ready to go with my vision.” Further adding, “We are hoping to create something unique with ‘Rannbhoomi’. We hope people like it,” says the ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’ (2017) director.

Khaitan doesn’t think Bollywood is behind Hollywood when it comes to story idea, only lacking in the special effects department, which is partly down to budgets. “They make a film with a budget of 500 million dollars which we are going to make in ten million dollars. I don’t think we are any lesser in terms of thoughts, ideas, stories. A ‘Baahubali’ shows you can do things intelligently even if it is not of the highest level of animation, it has the highest level of thought. The construction of the film is beautiful and that is where the focus should be.”…”Our animation and technique will improve when more and more countries are able to watch our films and get better recovery,” added the ‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania’ (2014) director.

‘Rannbhoomi’ is slated to release Diwali 2020. Currently Khaitan is working on his forthcoming film ‘Dhadak’ starring Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khattar.