Movie On Khalistan

Movie On Khalistan

Realism has never been  more in demand. And Sanjay Dutt who until recently  was  doing  mainly fantasy is now on  the realistic  route. He'll soon start  Raj Kumar Santoshi's film set during the Partition. Dutt also plays a real-life cop in Rahul Dholakia's  Lamhaa  set at the heart  of  Kashmiri militancy.

And now Sanjay Dutt will take  time off to play a real-realife cop who waged a fierce  battle against terrorism  in Punjab at  the  peak of  Khalistan  movement.

Apoorva Lakhia long in hibernation after the ill-fated Mission Istaanbul is all set  make a comeback with a film on the cops who battled  Khalistani extremism.

The terror situation in Punjab  during the 1970s and 80s will  be recreated   through rigorous research  on that  period.

Lakhia  says  the  film will occupy the same gritty real-time-real-space  as  Shoot-out At  Lokhandwala.

Sanjay Dutt will be  playing a real-life cop, one among a group who helped exterminate extremism in Punjab.

Amitabh Bachchan is also likely to play a real-life cop in this 'period' sharp shooter.

"It will be in the same genre as Shoot-out At Lokhandwala," says Lakhia about the film Asthvinayak is producing.

The last time we visited 'Khalistan' it was for Gulzar's dark intense and lyrical Maachis.

Lakhia's film tends to take another more gritty brutal and violent route. -