Shah Rukh Khan and Ranbir Kapoor are in talks to star in Russian producer Alexey Petruhin’s ambitious project titled VIY: Journey To India. The project will be the third installment of the VIY franchise.
The second installment, titled VIY 2: Journey to China, has actors Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger sharing screenspace and is expected to release sometime in 2017.
Petruhin told Indian Express, “We have approached SRK to be the lead actor and also the co-producer of the film. We are awaiting confirmation from him. The another actor we have approached is Ranbir Kapoor. We want to bring SRK and Ranbir together.”
VIY released in the year 2014. The dark fantasy film was loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story VIY.
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Talking about the film, Petruhin said, “Journey to India is about bringing Russia and India together. It’s a big movie and the budget will be around 40 million US dollars. We were looking for an actor who is like a leader in this industry with his own production house. Like from China, we signed Jackie Chan who is also a producer. So we have approached SRK and I am sure he will be interested in this type of project because it has world-class appeal and the film will be released all over the world.”
Interestingly, SRK had a small role in Ranbir’s latest release Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. i
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