It appears that Karan Johar has come to Tiger Shroff’s rescue. The actor’s film, Rambo, was recently shelved as it was deemed unviable after his hat-trick of flops. Now, we hear that KJo is backing a complete entertainer with Tiger in the lead. The filmmaker and the actor, who first worked together on Student of the Year (2019), were to reunite for an actioner, Screw Dheela. However, the film was put on the backburner owing to logistical issues. They are planning to begin the new film in early 2025. 

To august beginnings 

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An actor’s birthday is incomplete without any update of his next release. RRR actor NTR Junior is no exception. After teasing audiences with a teaser of the song Fear from his upcoming offering Devara Part 1, the makers released the Anirudh Ravichander composition from Koratala Siva’s directorial venture. That’s not all. The producers of his next with director Prashanth Neel also shared an update. Besides wishing Jr NTR aka Man of Masses, a ‘Happy Birthday’, the producers announced that the film, hashtagged #NTRNeel, will go on the floors this August. While recent reports indicated that the movie will be called Dragon, after Karan Johar gave away the title to them, it appears that the producers of NTR Jr and Prashanth’s collaboration will announce it closer to the commencement of the shoot. 

Sanya, Saba join Bobby’s next 

Bobby Deol recently began filming his next with director Anurag Kashyap. Sanya Malhotra and Saba Azad are the latest additions to the cast of the yet-untitled film. While the plot is being closely guarded, insiders claim the gritty thriller is inspired by a real-life incident that made national headlines. Interestingly, the movie also marks the Hindi debut of renowned Malayalam actor, Joju George. A major chunk of the film will be shot in Mumbai and Anurag is planning to wrap it up by June-end. Producer Nikhil Dwivedi is said to be keen to release the movie by this year-end. 

A four-cornered clash 

After deferring the release of Kamal Haasan and director S Shankar’s Indian 2 from June 14, the producers have declared that the vigilante actioner will now arrive in cinemas on July 12. Consequently, the film, which also stars Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Siddharth and SJ Suryah, will have a four-way clash. Akshay Kumar’s Sarfira, director Sudha Kongara’s adaptation of her National Award-winning film, Soorarai Pottru, and John Abraham’s Vedaa with director Nikkhil Advani are also releasing on the same date. If that’s not enough, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum’s Hollywood film, Fly Me to the Moon, also opens in theatres on July 12. It remains to be seen in the coming weeks how the distributors of the four releases share screens, if none of the films opts out of the face-off. 

Action in Kashmir   

Ajay Devgn was conspicuous by his absence at the polling centre yesterday. Reason: he is in Kashmir for the shoot of Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again. They were shooting an intense action sequence with Jackie Shroff, who reprises his character as the antagonist, Omar Hafeez. Ajay, who has sported a bearded look in his recent outings like Drishyam 2, Bholaa and Shaitaan, is back in his mustachioed super cop avatar. Rohit is set to wrap up the shoot by this month-end. The action drama will reportedly release on Diwali.