Shershaah is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language biographical war film directed by Vishnuvardhan and co-produced by Karan Johar. Tracing the life journey of Param Vir Chakra awardee and army captain Vikram Batra, it stars Sidharth Malhotra in a double role, as Batra and his identical twin brother Vishal; Kiara Advani plays the role of Dimple Cheema.
Announced in May 2019, principal photography begun in the same month and finished in January 2020. Initially scheduled to be released on 3 July 2020, the film was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film marks Vishnuvardhan's directorial debut in Bollywood and Hindi film. The film is scheduled to release on 12 August 2021 on Amazon Prime Video.
Karan Johar confirmed in 2018 that he will be producing a biopic on the life of Captain Vikram Batra. Sidharth Malhotra was selected by him to portray double role, as Batra and his identical twin brother Vishal. After talkings with several actresses can't work out, Kiara Advani was signed to portray Batra's fiancée Dimple Cheema. Malhotra started military training for the film on April 17, 2019. Before the official announcement of the film, it was speculated that the title will be "Mera Dil Maange More" but later was changed to "Shershaah".
The film was officially announced on 2 May 2019 with title and shooting locations to be Chandigarh, Palampur, Kargil-Ladakh and Kashmir. Principal photography eventually commenced on 7 May and the film was wrapped up on 12 January 2020 as the makers shared some pictures from the sets and announced the news. Some patchwork shoot later was left changed which was fully completed on 23 October 2020.
I sat down with the team and had a chat about their experience working on the film and with each other. Enjoy!
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