In the first week of October, director SS Rajamouli kick-started his magnum opus RRR with South superstars Ram Charan and NT Rama Rao Jr after a long break. According to a report by MidDay, actress Alia Bhatt, who has been shooting for Sanjay Leela Bhansali‘s Gangubai Kathiawadi in Mumbai, will jet-off to Hyderabad next week to join the cast of the multi-lingual magnum opus. Set in the early 20th century, the movie chronicles the tale of Alluri Sitarama Raju, essayed by Ram Charan, and Komaram Bheem, portrayed by Rao Jr, who fought against the British Raj and the Nizam of Hyderabad. Alia plays the love interest of Ram Charan in the film.
The publication quoted a source as saying—
Alia had only one scene remaining when the pandemic forced the makers to call time on the project in March. Come the first week of November, she will shoot a major confrontation scene with NT Rama Rao Jr and Ram Charan. The sequence sees the character of Bheem — who had coined the slogan ‘Jal, jangal, zameen’, thus asserting that people who live in the forest should have a right to its natural resources — having an ideological clash with Sitarama Raju and Alia’s character. The scene was to be shot at a bungalow in Pune, but the plan has been changed post the pandemic.The film is all set to release in January in 2021.