Karan Johar and Shah Rukh to produce next Atlee Kumar’s film

According to recent news in Times Of India, director Atlee Kumar’s next action thriller film to be produced by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and producer Karan Johar.

Shah Rukh Khan had vastly shot for ‘Pathan’ and is all gear up to begin working on South filmmaker Atlee Kumar’s next venture. A source actively notified a news portal that Atlee had reached out to Shah Rukh Khan with a plot line in 2019 and in March this year he reviewed the final script to SRK. Within no time the actor jumped onboard and will reportedly produced this yet-untitled movie with friend and producer Karan Johar. Reportedly, this film sells several strong and powerful sequences.

As per a statement in TOI(Times of India), Atlee is aiming to rope in prominent south actress Nayanthara to star opposite Bollywood King Khan in the untitled film. If all the elements will fall in place, this will be the Nayanthara’s third alliance with the director. She has acted with Atlee in his debut directorial Raja Rani and last directorial Bigil. The actress was latest noticed in Tamil comedy Mookuthi Amman, in which she portrayed the role of a goddess. Next Nayanthara will be seen in the Tamil thriller ‘Netrikann’ which is a remake of the Korean thriller, Blind.

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It is believed that the movie will be the Hindi remake of Atlee’s Tamil movie ‘Mersal’. The movie featured superstar of South Industry Vijay in a triple key role. Yet an official statement from the makers regarding their alliance is yet to be verified. Assumption has it that the movie is tentatively organized to go on floors by the end of this year.