Filmmakers Aanand L Rai and Anurag Kashyap will team up for the first time in the upcoming Mukkabaaz. Anurag Kashyap will direct the movie while Aanand L Rai will co-produce it with Phantom Films and Eros International. The first teaser of the movie was released on Twitter a while ago.
Aanand L Rai & Anurag Kashyap. Two different worlds step into the ring this November. ??#MukkabaazNov10 @aanandlrai @anuragkashyap72 pic.twitter.com/uujVDg81cs
— Eros Now (@ErosNow) July 6, 2017
The teaser talks about a boxer from Uttar Pradesh who falls in love with a Brahmin girl. According to a Mid-Day report, hip hop artiste DIVINE will mark his Bollywood debut with this project.
“This was for my favourite director, with my favourite producer and my debut. I gave whatever I had,” he said in a press statement.
Aanand L Rai is known for movies such as Tanu Weds Manu and Raanjhanaa, and Kashyap for movies such as Gangs of Wasseypur, Dev. D., Bombay Velvet and Ugly.
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