A quick look at everything making news in the world of cinema today!
What’s trending
Shree Narayan Singh’s upcoming social-drama Batti Gul Meter Chalu, starring Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor has ran into trouble over financial issues. But Shahid has moved to greener pastures. The actor is set to play the lead in Airlift and Chef director Raja Krishna Menon’s upcoming directorial, which is based on a real story and goes on floors by the year-end.
“Shahid and Raja have been planning to work together for a while now. They had met after the release of Udta Punjab back in June 2016 and had kept in touch, looking for a project to collaborate on. Both agreed on a script that Raja had been working on,” a source told Mumbai Mirror.
The director told Mirror, “Yes, Shahid and I are very keen to do our next film together. We have been working on an idea that we are both excited about and it will be a film based on a true story.”
Offbeat
A new trailer of Ocean’s 8 is out. A reboot of Ocean’s 11 with an all female star cast, in this film Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett plan a new heist. Mindy Kaling is a jewelry expert, Rihanna a grungy computer expert, Helena Bonham Carter works in fashion, Sarah Paulson plays a mom who hasn’t not been able to give up her profession and Awkwafina is a hustler. The team is planning to rob Anne Hathaway, rather her $150,000,000 necklace.
