Saibal Chatterjee
The 12 months has began off with a lot talked-about releases. At one finish of the spectrum are the Rajinikanth-starrer Darbar (Tamil, Telugu and Hindi) and the hyper-jingoistic historic Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior; on the different is the restrained Chhapaak, Meghna Gulzar’s tackle a real-life acid assault survivor. These three titles foreshadow what lies forward for Bollywood followers in 2020.
Amid the standard complement of big-budget remakes, sequels and biopics pushed by Bollywood A-listers, a spate of movies that includes the trade’s subsequent era of stars will jostle for area in a crowded market. Sara Ali Khan, Ananya Panday and Janhvi Kapoor, all three trade children, have new releases lined up this 12 months.
The gifted Sara Ali Khan’s subsequent launch is Imtiaz Ali’s Aaj Kal, believed to be a follow-up to 2009’s Love Aaj Kal, which starred the actress’ star-father Saif Ali Khan reverse Deepika Padukone. The brand new romantic drama, which has the 24-year-old Khan solid reverse Kartik Aaryan, is slated to hit the screens on Valentine’s Day, February 14.
The Kedarnath and Simmba star can be the lead actress of one other upcoming spinoff, David Dhawan’s Coolie No. 1, a remake of the 1995 comedy of the identical title. The movie, co-starring Varun Dhawan, is slated for an early Could launch.
Ananya Panday, 21, who ended 2019 with the middling Pati Patni Aur Woh, shall be seen in Maqbool Khan’s Khaali Peeli, co-starring Ishaan Khatter, Shahid Kapoor’s half-brother. Khatter has additionally a key position in Mira Nair’s six-part BBC One collection, A Appropriate Boy, at present being filmed.
Jahnvi Kapoor, 22, who debuted reverse Ishaan Khatter, 24, in Dhadak (2018), is the feminine lead position in as many as three 2020 motion pictures — Roohi Afza, which has her in a double position reverse Rajkummar Rao, The Kargil Woman, a biopic about India’s first lady fight pilot Gunjan Saxena, and Dostana 2.
Pooja Bedi’s daughter Alaia F., 22, makes her Bollywood debut within the Saif Ali Khan and Tabu romcom Jawaani Jaaneman, whereas two different trade kids, Priyaank Sharma (Padmini Kolhapure’s son) and Riva Kishen (Ravi Kishen’s daughter), have already seen their first launch, Sab Kushal Mangal, sink and not using a hint.
Lots of the Bollywood star kids are already doing fairly properly for themselves. Their 2020 movies will serve to find out the path their fledgling careers will take. Jackie Shroff’s son Tiger Shroff, 29, will seem in Baaghi 3, which co-stars Shraddha Kapoor, Shakti Kapoor’s daughter.
Road Dancer 3D
Subsequent up, Shraddha Kapoor squares off in opposition to Varun Dhawan, director David Dhawan’s son, in Remo D’Souza’s Road Dancer 3D, scheduled for launch on January 24. Alia Bhatt, Bollywood’s most bankable actors as we speak, shall be in three main 2020 releases — Ayan Mukherji’s Brahmastra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi and Mahesh Bhatt’s Sadak 2. Each Ayushmann Khurrana and Vicky Kaushal, each on a roll, may have a number of pictures at glory in 2020. Whereas Kaushal performs the title position in Shoojit Sircar’s Sardar Udham Singh, Khurrana shall be matching his appearing abilities with none aside from Amitabh Bachchan in the identical director’s Gulabo Sitabo.
Disha Patani, one of many few among the many new breed of Bollywood divas who has no parental hyperlinks with the trade, has two main movies on the way in which: Malang and Radhe: Your Most Wished Bhai, wherein she is solid reverse Salman Khan. Radhe shall be Patani’s second movie with Salman after 2019’s Bharat.
Whereas Shahrukh Khan may not have a launch in 2020, Aamir Khan is within the midst of the self-produced Laal Singh Chadda, an official Hindi remake of the 1994 Tom Hanks-starrer Forrest Gump. Kareena Kapoor performs his love curiosity within the movie helmed by Advait Chandan, who made his directorial debut in 2017 with the Aamir Khan manufacturing Secret Celebrity. Fatima Sana Shaikh, 27, who caught the world’s consideration in Dangal after which appeared within the field workplace dud Thugs of Hindostan, is, like Patani, is an outsider who has discovered a foothold in Bollywood. Her affiliation with the trade goes again a great distance — she started as a baby star within the Kamalahasan-starrer Chachi 420 (1997).
Bollywood mainstay Akshay Kumar, who had 4 releases in 2019, will tot up the identical quantity this 12 months as properly. His 2020 movies: Rohit Shetty’s powerful cop thriller Sooryavanshi, Raghava Lawrence’s Laxmmi Bomb, Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s historic drama Prithviraj and Farhad Samji’s Bachchan Pandey.
Ajay Devgn, too, has a number of movies lined up in 2020, together with Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, which launched on January 10 alongside Meghna Gulzar’s extremely anticipated Chhapaak, that includes Deepika Padukone as a real-life acid assault sufferer who rebuilds her life in opposition to all odds.
Among the many different Devgn releases of the 12 months is the sports activities movie Maidaan, which tells the story of the lifetime of the legendary Indian soccer coach, Syed Abdul Rahim, who masterminded a number of triumphs for the nation within the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, the final one in all which, a gold medal on the 1962 Jakarta Asian Video games, got here a 12 months earlier than he was felled by most cancers at age of 53.
Devgn can be the producer of Hansal Mehta’s Chalaang, one in all 2020’s most enjoyable movies. The movie’s solid has Rajkummar Rao and Nushrat Bharucha. Chalaang is a social comedy set in small city in Uttar Pradesh. The much-awaited Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Brahmastra, the primary movie of Ayan Mukherji’s deliberate fantasy-adventure trilogy, and 83, wherein Ranveer Singh performs former all-rounder Kapil Dev, who led India to a shock cricket World Cup victory in 1983, are two titles that shall be surrounded by an unlimited buzz after they arrive on the multiplexes.
The opposite movies that Hindi film followers will be careful for are Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad, starring Taapsee Pannu, Mahesh Bhatt’s Sadak 2, a sequel to the 1991 hit and Homi Adajania’s Angrezi Medium, which sees Irrfan Khan returning to the arc lights. Angrezi Medium co-stars Kareena Kapoor and Radhika Madan, a promising actress seen in 2019 in Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota and Pataakha.
The 12 months guarantees to be an enormous one for Bollywood sports activities dramas. Apart from 83 and Maidaan, within the pipeline are Nagraj Manjule’s Jhund, a few real-life Nagpur professor who grooms the town’s road kids and places collectively a soccer staff, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s boxing drama Toofan, starring Farhan Akhtar, and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Panga, wherein Kangana Ranaut performs a kabaddi participant.
