In the month of March, Uttarakhand will play host to Big-B or aka Amitabh Bachchan who begins to shoot in the hill-state for his first bilingual movie.
Renowned Director turned actor, SJ Suryah and Amitabh Bachchan will share the screen for the very fist time for what is Big-B’s first Tamil-Hindi film. Early December, the unit was in the hill-state for a three-day marathon recee of possible locations in and around Dehradun.
Produced by Uttarakhand born Om Prakash Bhatt, South superstar SJ Suryah, Director T Tamilvannan, Sujay Shankarwar met Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on their visit showing their eagerness to shoot in the hill-state.
An elated Om Prakash Bhatt had said , “This is going to be the first time that Bollywood superstar Amitabh ji would act in a South Indian bilingual movie. The shoot will be for a forty day duration at a stretch in my home state Uttarakhand.”
Satish Sharma, who has been promoting the hill state as a film destination for decades now was happy that the unit had zeroed down on Uttarakhand, “A crew of 250 members along with Big B and South superstar SJ Suryah for over a month, is sure to bring a lot of good publicity to the hill-state.”
The State Government, on its part has promised the unit to provide the requisite support system so that the big banner film could consider going ahead with shooting in Uttarakhand. A mega initiative which will definitely promote the hill-state as a shooting destination.
Speaking to Newspost KS Chauhan Deputy Director, Information Department of Uttarakhand said, “It gives us great pleasure to host Big-B and South Superstar SJ Suryah. The unit has finalised parts of Dehradun and Mussoorie for their upcoming first bilingual movie sometime in March. It is an honour for us.”
