Rajkummar Rao and Fatima Sana Shaikh began shooting for Anurag Basu’s yet-untitled film in Bhopal on 14 January. A source told
Mumbai Mirror
that their portion in the film will be wrapped up in the 15-day-long schedule. The source described the film as narrating four different stories which are set in four small Indian towns. The actors took to Instagram stories to share pictures from the shoot. [caption id=“attachment_5898291” align=“alignnone” width=“825”]
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Fatima Sana Shaikh shared an image from Bhopal on her Instagram story. Instagram[/caption] The movie, speculated to be a follow-up to Basu 2007 anthology film, Life in a Metro, will also be filmed in Saif Ali Khan’s ancestral house. The ensemble cast of the yet-untitled project consists Abhishek Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rajkummar Rao and Pankaj Tripathi. Basu, in an earlier
interview
, said that the release date of the film would only be decided after the film is wrapped up. He will also be directing
Kangana Ranaut for the third time in Imali
, after Gangster and Life in a… Metro. Fatima Sana Shaikh was last seen in 2018’s action-adventure drama Thugs of Hindostan alongside Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Katrina Kaif. Rajkummar Rao’s Stree became one of the biggest sleeper-hits of 2018.
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