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Saif Ali Khan and Director Ritesh Batra Kick Off Filming for New Period Drama
- •Actor Saif Ali Khan has begun filming for a new untitled period drama with acclaimed director Ritesh Batra.
- •The collaboration brings together Saif's penchant for unconventional roles and Batra's expertise in intimate storytelling.
- •Saif was recently seen portraying a blind man in Priyadarshan's Haiwaan alongside Akshay Kumar.
- •Ritesh Batra gained international acclaim with his 2013 directorial debut The Lunchbox starring Irrfan Khan.
- •Further details regarding the project's full cast, plot, and release timeline are expected to be released as production progresses.
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Actor Saif Ali Khan and director Ritesh Batra have begun filming for an untitled period drama. Further details regarding the full cast and release timeline are currently awaited as production progresses.
Saif Ali Khan has a history of experimental roles, including the morally complex streaming series Sacred Games, the unconventional film Being Cyrus, and the period drama Laal Kaptaan. He also recently portrayed a blind man in Priyadarshan's Haiwaan alongside Akshay Kumar.
Ritesh Batra made his acclaimed feature directorial debut with The Lunchbox in 2013 and later directed international projects like The Sense of an Ending and Our Souls at Night. Alongside his film with Saif Ali Khan, he is completing the first two episodes of Netflix's Unaccustomed Earth.
