Shershaah
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Shershaah
is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language biographical war action
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
female lead. The official
announcement for film was made in May 2019; principal photography commenced in the same month and wrapped
up in January
2020. First look posters of the film were unveiled on 16 January 2020 with
release date confirmed to be 3 July 2020. This also marks Vishnuvardhan's
directorial debut in Bollywood and Hindi film.
Cast
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Sidharth Malhotra as Vikram Batra/Vishal Batra (double role)
·
Kiara Advani as Dimple Cheema
·
Jaaved Jaffrey as Major Ashraf Ali
·
Shiv Panditt
·
Himmanshoo A. Malhotra as
Rajeev
·
Ankita Goraya as Mona
Production
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, 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.
Marketing and release
The first
look posters was released on 16 January 2020.
The film
will theatrically release on 3 July 2020.]
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