The outbreak of coronavirus has hampered all the Bollywood plans for 2020. BTown star Siddhant Chaturvedi is also one of the affected members of the entertainment industry. While the Gully Boy actor was all set to start his film with Excel Entertainment in foreign location it got paused because of the pandemic.
Directed by Mom fame Ravi Udyawar, the film is an action entertainer. Siddhant had already started boxing training for it and the team even shot for a special video to announce the movie on a grand scale.
The actor was also gearing up to kick off Shakun Batra’s relationship drama with Deepika Padukone and Ananya Panday in Sri Lanka before this action drama.
Now that the things have slowly started to roll and the Government has allowed resuming the shoot with some strict guidelines it has been learned that Siddhant’s action film will now go on floors only at the end of this year.
“Siddhant’s date diary has gone awry due to the lockdown and will have to reschedule all his films. Out of three films he has in hands, debutant director Varun V Sharma’s Bunty Aur Babli 2 is almost completed and has only a song remaining which will be shot in a few weeks at Yash Raj Studios keeping safety measures in place. Shakun’s Dharma production is expected to roll once normalcy returns and will be filmed in one go. Since Siddhant’s action film will be mounted on a large scale with most outdoor sequences outside of India, it’s expected to get off the ground only after shootings in foreign is allowed. Although the makers haven’t locked a timeline, they are expecting to start it in December or January 2021,” a tabloid quoted a source.
Backed by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, the story of the project is about revenge with slick and fast-paced action sequences. It has been reported that Farhan himself is writing and supervising its script.
Siddhant has also been training in Taekwondo and other martial arts to get into the skin of the character.
