Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, the Hindi film actor, began shooting for her upcoming film, Blind, in Glasgow on Monday.
The crime-thriller is the Hindi remake of the 2011 Korean film Blind and will be directed by debutant director Shome Makhija.
The actor shared director Sujoy Ghosh‘s tweet announcing the commencement of the shoot.
Ghosh is one of the producers of the film along with Avishek Ghosh, Manisha W, Pinkesh Nahar, Sachin Nahar as well as Hyunwoo Thomas Kim under the banners Kanai, AVMA Media, Rainbow Studios, and Kross Pictures.
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Blind revolves around a former police officer, who loses the opportunity to be in service after an accident leaves her blind. However, with her strong physical senses, she attempts to catch a serial killer, and solve a missing person’s case as well as a hit-and-run case.
The film will feature Purab Kohli and Vinay Pathak alongside Kapoor Ahuja.
Kapoor Ahuja was last seen in a lead role in the 2019 film Zoya Factor and made appearance in the Netflix original film AK vs AK, which released earlier this month,
Blind has earlier been remade in Chinese as The Witness and in Japanese asSightless Witness. In India, the film was remade in Tamil as Netrikann featuring Nayanthara.
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Other Korean films that have been remade into Indian films include, Oh! Baby, Rocky Handsome, Ek Villain, Jazba, Te3n, and Bharat, etc. Since Korean films are gaining popularity, a number of remakes have been slated for the following year include Salman Khan-starrer Radhe, which is a remake of the South Korean film Veteran.
Besides this, Suresh Productions has acquired the Telugu remake rights of two Korean films- Midnight Runners and Dancing Queen, as reported by The News Minute.