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It’s a wrap for Imtiaz Ali’s next with Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan!

Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, whose credits include Jab We Met (2007), Love Aaj Kal (2008) and Rockstar (2011), has been keeping quite busy of late with the shoot of his next directorial venture in the picturesque locations of Himachal Pradesh. Starring Kartik Aaryan, Sara Ali Khan and Randeep Hooda in lead roles, the untitled film has been in news even before the camera started rolling earlier this year. Today, the team took to their social media handles to announce that the film has been wrapped up.

Randeep Hooda, who has reteamed with Imtiaz Ali after critically and commercially successful film Highway (2014), shared a couple of behind-the-scenes pictures and captioned them, “It's a WRAP!! 66 days and a million memories :) ‪Releasing on 14th Feb 2020.”


Sara Ali Khan, who made her acting debut with Kedarnath (2018) and tasted huge success with Simmba (2018), also took to Instagram to announce the completion of her third film. Thanking her director, Imtiaz Ali, she wrote, “It's a WRAP!! 66 days and a million memories! Thank you @imtiazaliofficial for making my dream come true. I truly appreciate your warmth, patience and consideration with me every single day. Being on your set has been a privilege that I will always cherish and already miss.”

In another message, Sara also thanked her co-star Kartik Aaryan, who she says is her crush. “Thank you @kartikaaryan for instantly making me comfortable with you, for selflessly giving and for consistently looking out for me. From coffee’s about you to chai’s with you, I wish we could do it all over again. I’m going to miss you more than you know and more than I can admit.”

Made under the banner of Maddock Films and Window Seat Films, the romantic film is slated to buzz into theatres on 14th February, 2020.

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Yash, who plays the demon king Ravana in Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana, says his portrayal was shaped by one clear goal: making the character relatable beyond Indian audiences.
Speaking at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week, where the film was presented alongside major Hollywood releases, the actor said he worked to strip away the purely mythological reading of the role.

"I have tried to internalise the whole essence of Ravana and tried to make him as human as possible at times," Yash told Reuters.

"It is important for people to relate to him, and since we have global ambitions, we need to make it familiar to a Western audience as well."

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