Amitabh Bachchan started shooting for Nagraj Manjule’s ‘Jhund’ in Nagpur on Monday. He shared the news on Twitter with some of his photographs. ‘Jhund’ is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Savita Raj Hiremath, Manjule.
T 3014 – NAGPUR .. for 'Jhund' .. the new project by Nagraj , his first in Hindi, the maker of 'Sairat' the Marathi block buster .. a centre of attraction .. and NAGPUR, geographically apparently the centre of geographic India .. may the 2 centres thrive ! pic.twitter.com/e6GGMH3iSP
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) December 3, 2018
The movie is a biopic, based on the life of Vijay Barse, who is the founder of Slum Soccer. He was a professor who collects a few street children and builds a soccer team. Big B will be seen playing the role of Vijay.
‘Jhund’ is the first Bollywood movie of Nagraj who gave Marathi blockbuster ‘Sairat’ in 2016.
Amitabh will also be seen in Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Badla’, starring Tapsee Pannu. He was last seen in ‘Thugs Of Hindostan’ which in spite of being the most expensive Hindi film and having big star cast, miserably flopped.