Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali announced last year that he will be directing two films, Gangubai Kathiawadi and Bajiu Bawra. While the former is already in process with a temporary pause due to pandemic, the director will soon be starting with his shoot Baiju Bawra. It is a remake of the film with the same name that was released in 1952. Earlier there were speculations that Sanjay Leela Bhansali will be casting Ranveer Singh as the lead for the remake film, but now Pinkvilla reports have confirmed that Ranbir Kapoor has been finalized for the lead role.
A close source of SLB revealed to Pinkvilla, “Ranveer and SLB were discussing to collaborate on a film, but right now that can’t happen. Bhansali will unite with Ranbir Kapoor on this one. There are two main male leads in the film, one is of Baiju and the other of Tansen. RK will be playing Baiju’s role in the period drama. Recently he even went to meet the filmmaker at his office where he verbally agreed to do his project. The actor’s team is now working out the modalities”. He further added, “They aren’t locking his dates as of now because they need to lock the other actors for the film and if all goes well, the film will only go on floors in the second half of 2021. SLB will first wrap up work on Gangubai and then plan the pre production for this. RK on the other hand will start shooting for Luv Ranjan’s film and then begins Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s next around early 2021”.
SLB and RK will be reuniting for Baiju Bawra after Saawariya, that released 13 years ago and was also Ranbir’s debut film.
