With some strict guidelines, Bollywood is all set to resume its pending work. As a part of the Unlock 1 phase, Maharashtra Government has allowed offices to reopen and allowed post-production work to restart from June 8.
Following the new notification post-production of Vicky Kaushal’s Sardar Udham Singh will start today. While talking to daily producer Ronnie Lahiri said that their team is taking all the necessary precautions stated by the government.
The producer further informed that they will be working in shifts and the office is sanitized and limited staff will be present.
“We are taking the requisite precautions stated by the Maharashtra government. We already have an edit suite in our office, so there will be two people working on the edit of the film which will take about 2-3 months. They will be working in shifts, and the office space will be duly sanitized. Our editors will also be taking the necessary precautions, but since there are only two people, it shouldn’t be much of a problem to manage things,” Ronnie told.
Directed by Shoojit Sircar, Sardar Udham Singh releasing on January 15, 2021, seems unlikely.
“We earlier had an October release, but we had then moved it to January. But I don’t think that is going to be possible now, given the situation. We have already lost over two months to this pandemic. And there is a lot of things that need to be taken into account once the actual shoot stops and the post-production work begins. The editing alone would take us about close to three months, and then we will have to talk to the visual effects team. So a January release seems unlikely. In fact, we don’t have a clear release date in mind as of now,” Ronnie added.
Sardar Udham Singh stating Vicky is based on Udham Singh, who assassinated Michael O’ Dwyer, former lieutenant governor of Punjab, in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919.
