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'Vikram Vedha' is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by PushkarGayathri. It is a remake of their own 2017 Tamil film of the same name. Jointly produced by YNOT Studios, Friday Filmworks, T-Series Films, Reliance Entertainment and Jio Studios, the film stars Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Radhika Apte and Rohit Saraf.

Production began in October 2021 and wrapped in June 2022. The film is scheduled to be theatrically released worldwide on 30 September 2022.

Premise



Vikram is an honest police inspector, who seeks to apprehend Vedha, a dreaded gangster. When Vedha surrenders, Vikram's perception of good and evil begins to change when Vedha narrates three stories to him.

Cast





* Hrithik Roshan as Vedha

* Saif Ali Khan as Vikram

* Radhika Apte as Vikram's wife

* Rohit Saraf as Vedha's brother

* Yogita Bihani as Chanda

* Sharib Hashmi as Babloo

* Satyadeep Mishra

Production



Development

In March 2018, PushkarGayathri were confirmed to be directing a Hindi remake of their Tamil film 'Vikram Vedha' (2017), to be produced again by YNOT Studios. The project is co-produced by Friday Filmworks, T-Series Films and Reliance Entertainment, and Neeraj Pandey serves creative producer. PushkarGayathri intended for the remake to maintain the "gritty" tone that the original film had. Although Pandey had previously avoided working on remakes because of his preference to write original material, he was interested in working on this project because of its parallels to Vikramaditya and Betal from the folktale collection 'Baital Pachisi', which he felt was not yet done in Hindi cinema.

Casting

Shah Rukh Khan was approached for the film, but declined. In August 2019, it was confirmed that Saif Ali Khan and Aamir Khan would play the police inspector Vikram and the gangster Vedha respectively. Saif differentiated Vikram from Sartaj Singh, another police officer he played in the streaming television series 'Sacred Games', saying Vikram is "much more dynamic, confident and strong" than Singh who was suicidal, and constantly picked on by others. PushkarGayathri revealed that they were unable to have R. Madhavan reprise his role of Vikram from the original, due to his commitments to 'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect' (2022).

After production delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic during which the writers also re-worked the script, Aamir left the project in December 2020 and was shortly thereafter replaced by Hrithik Roshan. This would mark the second time Saif and Roshan share screen space after 'Na Tum Jaano Na Hum' (2002). As Vedha is from Kanpur, Roshan decided to speak with an Awadhi accent. In July, Radhika Apte was cast as Vikram's lawyer wife and Rohit Saraf signed on to play Vedha's brother the following month. By November 2021, Sharib Hashmi was confirmed to be in the film as Babloo. In March 2022, Yogita Bihani was chosen to play Chanda.

Filming

Principal photography was planned to begin in February 2021, when Aamir Khan was in the cast. After Roshan replaced him, it was to have begun in June 2021, but ultimately began on 15 October that year with the first schedule taking place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Before the schedule began, part of the sets originally built for 'Tiger Zinda Hai' (2017) were reworked by 'Vikram Vedha's crew to resemble Lucknow and Kanpur. In response to reports that Roshan refused to shoot in Lucknow and asked the crew to create the Lucknow sets in Abu Dhabi, causing the budget to escalate, Reliance explained that UAE was "the only location providing the infrastructure for a bio-bubble that accommodated crew of such scale, also allowing building of sets in a studio during the preceding months of the shoot", and the film was shot there due to "health and protocol concerns". They added that their films' shooting locations and budgetary decisions are not controlled by actors. After the Abu Dhabi schedule ended within 27 working days, the second schedule began in Lucknow in early December. Saif Ali Khan finished his portions of the schedule by the end of the month. Apte, whose schedule was only 10 days, finished filming most of her portions by 26 April 2022. Filming wrapped by 10 June 2022.

Music



The songs featured in the film are composed by VishalShekhar, with lyrics written by Manoj Muntashir. The score is composed by Sam C. S, who composed music for the original. The first single "Alcoholia" was released on 17 September 2022. Ganesh Hegde is the director of choreography.

Marketing



The film's teaser was released on 24 August 2022. On YouTube, it received over a million likes in less than 48 hours, surpassing 'War' (2019) as the most-liked teaser for a Hindi film.

Release



'Vikram Vedha' is scheduled for theatrical release on 30 September 2022.

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