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Siddharth Malhotra’s character in new movie has allowed him to
experience the various shades of certain movies and roles

With his versatility in acting, it is anticipated that the new Sidharth Malhotra-
starrer ‘Mission Majnu’ is set out to be a critical and commercial success.
The movie focuses on Malhotra playing the character of an undercover
RAW agent who infiltrated his way into Pakistan in the 1970s, changing
the relationship. Malhotra stated in an interview that his character in
the espionage film has “more to offer than just conventional action
sequences.” Malhotra later on talked more with PTI that “It is more of a
thriller than action. This is the first time I am playing a spy agent, but it
is not a James Bond character.” He goes on to say that he is an agent
that continuously manipulates others and through that manipulation he
starts to unfold the truth, thus changing the relationship between India
and Pakistan for days to come. Malhotra states that he is very excited to
shoot this movie as he has not done a period film before and has been
able to explore the various scopes that come with such films. Recently,
Malhotra did suffer an injury while shooting a ‘conventional action sequence’ in Rohit Shetty’s new show
“Indian Police Force.” The actor suffered another injury to his knee while trying to film a stunt for Mission
Majnu itself. Here’s hoping he heals up by the time Mission Majnu hits theaters on June 10, 2022!

Ajay Kapoor’s emotional reasoning for bringing Rotem Shamir
for the shooting of ‘Garud’

With the successes of movies like ‘Parmanu,’ ‘Baby,’ and ‘Airlift,’ the
anticipation for the Ajay Kapoor produced movie ‘Garud’ is through
the roof! The movie’s production made huge headlines when Kapoor
brought in known Israeli director Rotem Shamir for the direction of
the film. Kapoor stated the reason for him bringing Shamir was that
the latter’s direction of projects like ‘Hostages’ and ‘Fauda’ will allow
the Indian box office to see the depiction of the Indian hostages in
Afghanistan and the terror they experienced during the Rescue Crisis
of 2021. The movie revolves around a fictional squad whose mission
is to get hostages out of Afghanistan, which is now being controlled
by the Taliban. Kapoor stated that this movie has him emotionally
driven due to the patriotic undertones that the movie seeks to bring.
Kapoor and his partner Subhash Kale say that they have high hopes
for Shamir’s direction as their objective of the film is to highlight the actual event and the high
stress that most of the hostages had experienced when trying to get out of Afghanistan. Shamir
also states that while ‘Garud’ focuses on the Indian spectrum of things, his direction is looking at
the event in a universal perspective. With Kapoor’s success in other patriotic-like movies, here’s
hoping that he can create the same magic with ‘Garud’ when it hits theaters August 15, 2022.

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