Shirish Kunder's Rs 1 bn film to be under Red Chillies banner
Red Chillies, a Shah Rukh Khan's production house, is set to produce director Shirish Kunder's next film that will star Khan himself. The rest of the cast and crew are still being finalised. According to sources close to the development, it will be a sci-fi action flick with a heavy dose of visual effects adhering to Hollywood movies like Pirates of the Caribbean and Spider-Man. The film is expected to cost an estimated Rs 1 billion (Rs 100 crores). The visual effects team of Red Chillies wiill be working on this film. The company is in the process of expanding operations, in order to commence work on this film. The film which will go on floors early next year, will be shot entirely in Mumbai. This will incidentally be Kunder's second film as a director, his directorial debut being the Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta starrer Jaan-e-Mann produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, which was released last year. Red Chillies is currently working on the Farah Khan directed Om Shanti Om starring Shah Rukh Khan and debutant Deepika Padukone and based on Bollywood of the 1970s and boasts special visual effects as well.
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