Some time back there were false rumours going around that Hrithik Roshan refused to shoot parts of his upcoming movie in Uttar Pradesh and so it had to be moved to Dubai. However, now the makers of the movie, Reliance Entertainment, have cleared the air around it.
On their Twitter page, they wrote, “We have been noticing a lot of misleading and totally unsubstantiated reporting on ‘Vikram Vedha’ shooting locations. We clearly want to state that Vikram Vedha has been shot extensively in India, including Lucknow. A portion of the film was shot in the United Arab Emirates in October-November of 2021 since it was the only location providing the infrastructure for a bio-bubble that accommodated a crew of such scale, also allowing the building of sets in a studio during the preceding months of the shoot.”
“We chose to do that out of health and protocol concerns. Any attempt to twist these sets of facts is clearly mischievous and untruthful. Also, we would like to emphatically state that at Reliance Entertainment while we welcome suggestions from creative talent, the production and budgetary decisions are a centralised prerogative.”
The movie is based on the popular Indian folk tale, ‘Vikram Aur Betal’. It’s the story of a police officer who is set to hunt a vicious gangster. ‘Vikram Vedha’ is the remake of a 2017 Tamil movie which starred R Madhavan and Vijay Sethupati. In this one, we get to see Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan as gangsters. Radhika Apte and Rohit Saraf are some of the other actors in the movie. The movie is set to release by the end of September 2022.