Karan Johar signs a two-film deal along with The Night Manager director Sandeep Modi

After The Night Manager, Sandeep Modi will next be in charge of a huge action movie starring Karan Johar, which is anticipated to start production before the end of the year.

Vasan Bala and Neeraj Ghaywan, two highly regarded filmmakers, have been hired by Karan Johar to work under his production company, Dharma, on a feature film. Neeraj is working on an intense human drama for the banner while Vasan will be directing an action movie.

Both movies are now in pre-production and are expected to start shooting this year. And now, Sandeep Modi, the creator of the newly launched online series The Night Manager, has a two-film deal with Karan.

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“Sandeep has been working on a script for the last two years and the things are now locked on paper with regards to the story. His next directorial is a big budget action film for Dharma Production. While the script is more or less locked now, the film will enter the pre-production stage by summer this year, as the team is looking to mount a big action film,” revealed a source close to the development, adding further that the film will go on floors by end of this year.

“It will be a big star-cast film and will proceed into the casting stage by this summer. The details about his second film with Dharma are not known yet, but he has already got an idea green lit by Karan Johar,” the source added.

Dharma is currently broadening its scope by investigating material with filmmakers from other filmmaking schools. Sandeep is also the director of two other critically acclaimed films, Chumbak with Swanand Kirkire and Arya with Ram Madhvani, in addition to The Night Manager.

They are in discussions with numerous more Hindi film industry directors, and a list of forthcoming movies will be released soon. Their currently shooting projects include Mr. and Mrs. Mahi, starring Janhvi Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao, the C Sankaran biography, starring Akshay Kumar, and Raula, starring Vicky Kaushal and Tripti Dimri.

The banner is now preparing for the release of Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani, directed by Karan Johar and starring Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Jaya Bachchan, and Shabana Azmi.