Mumbai, Oct 13 (PTI) Filmmaker Ayan Mukerji said he iselated that megastar Amitabh Bachchan is on board his nextdirectorial "Brahmastra".
After directing two coming-of-age movies such as, "WakeUp Sid" and "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani", the 34-year-olddirector will helm the fantasy adventure series, backed byKaran Johar's Dharma Productions.
"It's a great honour for me to work with him. Eversince the film was conceptualised I wanted to approach him(Bachchan) for it and make it with him. I am very happy he ispart of the team 'Brahmastra'," Ayan told reporters here.
He was speaking on the sidelines of the opening ceremonyof Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival last night.
"Brahmastra" will be a trilogy, also featuring RanbirKapoor and Alia Bhatt.
"I am very excited about the cast but I hope the filmis even bigger than the cast. They have all come togetherbecause of the story and the theme of the film," he said.
In the movie, Ranbir will play a character with specialpowers and Ayan said it is not a typical costume clad-superhero film.
"It's a modern-day film set in India as it exists today.
But the reason it's called 'Brahmastra' is because theenergies, wisdom, powers in the film come from ancient India.
That's all I would say. There are some costumes, (but) may benot the way you'd expect them to be," he said.
The first part of the series will release on August15, 2019 and Ayan said he has devoted everything to the film.
"It's a very big project of my life. All my hopes areon this film. I hope 'ye film sabse zyada dhoom machaye' (thisfilm rocks)," he said. PTI JUR GKRDS.
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