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Sri Lanka To Be Recreated In Mumbai For Akshay Kumar’s ‘Ram Setu’ To Avoid COVID-19 Challenges

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Mumbai: Busy actor Akshay Kumar is moving on to his next project, ‘Ram Setu’, for which he has already begun work.

Akshay plays an archaeologist in the film which also features Jaqueline Fernandes and Nushratt Bharuccha.

News18 quoted sources as saying that the makers are recreating Sri Lanka in Mumbai for the film. “The production house wanted to shoot at real locations in Sri Lanka, but the country hasn’t yet fully opened up. There are some quarantine procedures which is making things challenging for the cast and crew. Since the makers had already had an encounter where the cast and crew tested positive in April, they don’t want to take a chance again. To avoid any further delays, they have now decided to create a set similar to the locales of Sri Lanka in Film City,” the report added.

The film was announced last year on Diwali and the shooting had begun in March this year. The mahurat shot was held in Ayodhya and the makers were later shooting in Mumbai, before Akshay and around 45 crew members tested positive for Coronavirus. The shoot was immediately stopped and it was pushed indefinitely.

“Akshay, along with Jacqueline, are going to shoot for a song sequence. The actress plays the role of an actor in the film also. In fact Jaqueline has skipped the summons for the fourth time issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case against conman Sukesh Chandrasekar. The location of Ooty is a perfect backdrop for the script. The shooting will be wrapped by Friday before the action moves to Mumbai where a huge set has been erected,” the report added further quoting sources, who revealed that the actors are now shooting in Ooty.

“Once Akshay is back from Ooty, he will get busy with the promotions of Rohit Shetty’s Sooryvanshi. He has already given his dates for the promotions of the film which releases on November 5, a day after Diwali. The actor will then resume work on Ram Setu in the city,” the source added

OB Bureau

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