Last seen together in the 2008 film Veer, Jackie Shroff and Salman Khan are set to team up for Ali Abbas Zafar’s upcoming directorial Bharat. Shroff also played superstar Aamir Khan’s father in Vijay Krishna Acharya’s Dhoom 3 (2013).
“The role of Salman’s father may not be a big one but it’s pivotal to the film and shapes Salman’s character and who he becomes later. It was Salman who wanted Jackie to play this powerful role. It starts in 1947 when the Partition takes place and thousands of families are separated and ends in 2000,” a source reveals to an Indian daily.
Bharat, which also stars gorgeous Priyanka Chopra, Disha Patani, Tabu and ace comedian Sunil Grover in lead roles, is an official remake of South Korean movie Ode To My Father (2014).
The movie is being produced by Khan’s sister Alvira Agnihotri Khan and brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri in association with Bhushan Kumar of T-Series.
Bharat hits the silver screen on Eid, next year.
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