Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Kamal Haasan- Shankar ` Indian 2' abandoned ?

 Multiple sources seem to confirm the news that Indian 2, the mega budget film with Kamal Haasan and director Shankar has been given a silent burial. Checking out this news on many fronts related to Actor Kamal Haassan and director Shankar. events that are moving rapidly, Indian 2 will probably go down as a ill fated film project that took off in style and got a silent burial. 

For one Bigg Boss Tamil next season is fast getting ready to go on floors and as with Bigg Boss Ultimate, this will be a 24x7 on Disney Hotstar with a 90 minute capsule every day on Star Vijay. Kamal Haasan is the host and as things move on STR might step in. STR link with Disney- Hotstar and Star Vijay was the reason for his presence at Vikram' audio . Vikram OTT rights is with Disney- Hotstar.

Kamal Haasan is in talks with Rajmouli for a Mahesh Babu Pan Indian film. His next as actor is with Pa Ranjith as director and once again with Lokesh Kanakraj and followed by  Mahesh Narayanan as director. All are his own productions. Apart from this he is to produce a film with Sivakarthikeyan as hero. Though production side will be handled by Mahendran , executive producer, Kamal as actor has his calendar full. In this calendar, Indian 2 does not figure.

For Shankar, Ram Charan film will keep him occupied for rest of the year. The film is releasing only for Pongal ( January 2023). Reshoot of portions of comedian Vivek and making changes to bring in another heroine  in place of Kajal Aggarwal ( got married and is mother of a baby girl) are the two major headaches. Secondly, Lyca Productions who wanted the film to be ready for Diwali release finds that it is sitting on a project that is ill fated as spending more money on it to reassemble the broken pieces  might not be a good decision. Apart from this, the death of crew members in an accident too is seen an ominous.  Lyca needs to put in Rs 50 crores more and another half of it on promotion. After Marudhanayagam, Sabhash Naidu, Indian 2 is likely to be Kamal Haasan's third film that took off and got shelved ,if  trends are any indicators.

In May 2020, India Today reported the film was shelved but a LYCA spokesperson replied saying " We have completed almost 60 percent of the film’s shoot. How will we consider dropping the project?. We will start after lockdown".


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