EXCLUSIVE: Excel Entertainment teaming up with Kanika Dhillon for an intense thriller : Bollywood News

Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Leisure is quickly increasing its manufacturing pipeline following its definitive cope with Common Music India (UMI) earlier this yr. The banner is assembling a large slate for the approaching years, spanning genres and scales and that includes main stars, together with Aamir Khan and Sunny Deol.

EXCLUSIVE: Excel Leisure teaming up with Kanika Dhillon for an intense thriller

Within the newest improvement, Excel Leisure is teaming up with screenwriter Kanika Dhillon for an intense thriller. Kanika has written the script and can co-produce the venture below her Kathha Footage banner, marking her third manufacturing enterprise following the 2023 Kajol and Kriti Sanon-led thriller thriller Do Patti and the upcoming Taapsee Pannu starrer Gandhari, which is slated to premiere on Netflix later this yr.

Particulars of the venture are being stored below wraps, however sources say it is going to be an attractive thriller exploring themes of morality, ethics and sophisticated societal points, with two daring and sophisticated characters on the centre of the story. Farhan and Kanika have been actively creating the venture over the previous few months and are in superior discussions to finalise the lead solid. Though the director is but to be locked, the producers are planning to take the movie on flooring by the top of this yr or early 2027.

Kanika is broadly identified for writing critically acclaimed movies centred round complicated, daring and flawed feminine protagonists, together with Haseen Dilruba, Manmarziyaan, Responsible and Judgementall Hai Kya. Her writing credit additionally embody Dunki, Kedarnath and Raksha Bandhan. Up subsequent, she has written and is producing Gandhari, a gripping motion thriller starring Taapsee Pannu as a fierce mom on a mission. Joram and Bhonsle director Devashish Makhija is directing the Netflix movie, which is presently in post-production.

In the meantime, Excel Leisure has half a dozen tasks in numerous levels of manufacturing. The slate consists of Lalkaara, an Aamir Khan starrer sports activities drama directed by Ashutosh Gowariker; Antony, a high-octane, suspense-driven motion thriller starring Sunny Deol and Jyothika; and Mirzapur: The Movie, the cinematic adaptation of the favored Prime Video collection, which releases in theatres on September 4. Additionally within the works are Neeraj Pandey’s R.D. Burman biopic and Abhishek Chaubey’s subsequent Prime Video collection.

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