It’s going to the lights, camera and Gujarat again in 2014 for Bollywood. After
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s
Goliyon Ka Rasleela-Ram-Leela, Nikhil Advani’s D-Day, Abhishek Kapoor’s
Kai Po Che, Puneet Malhotra’s
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein and Prabhu Dheva’s R Rajkumar which were shot extensively in the state, this year Bollywood’s biggest superstars
Shah Rukh Khan and
Salman Khan will land in Ahmedabad in the summer to shoot their respective films.
READ: SRK fine, concentrate on 'Jai Ho': Salman Barely weeks after news of Shah Rukh Khan’s plans to shoot in Ahmedabad for a film became public, arch rival and bête noir Salman Khan followed it up with an announcement that he was likely to shoot for Sooraj Barjatya’s next film tentatively titled Bade Bhaiyya in Gujarat for a 15 day schedule. Sooraj and Salman are reuniting professionally after 15 years and interestingly the last time Salman shot for a film in Gujarat was in 1998 for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam!
Salman who has made several film promotional trips to Gujarat in the last two years, spent a lot of time with Narendra Modi and celebrated Uttarayan with the Gujarat Chief Minister days before his film Jai Ho hit the screens. Now in the middle of the year he’s likely to arrive with Sooraj Barjatya’s team to shoot for his next production co-starring
Sonam Kapoor. In June, Rahul Dholakia’s Raees produced by
Farhan Akhtar and
Ritesh Sidhwani, set in the Ahmedabad pols takes off. An action-packed flick Raees is about a Gujarat family and addresses the issue of prohibition with SRK playing the role of a bootlegger!
While the two Khans have hugged each other at a film awards night and seem to stay away from each other’s orbits, if they are in the state at the same time then Gujarat can gets set for a Khan-tastic summer!
WATCH: Salman Khan Shahrukh Khan Hug - Star Guild Awards