It's official! The next director of JP Dutta, after Paltan, will not be one (as the norm of the filmmaker) but two – a biopic on Maharaja Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh empire, ruled the northwestern Indian subcontinent at the beginning of the 19th century and the 39, another, a biopic in Rajasthan. Maharaja Ranjit Singh was popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or Lion of Punjab.
The second film is a modern biopic installed in the interiors of Rajasthan and based on a powerful personality of Rajasthan. Buz is that Harshvardhan Rane, who has a three-film deal with JP Dutta's production company, was signed to star in this film. Dutta will lead both. He returned to direct with Paltan after almost a decade but this time the filmmaker will not be seen pausing but dive into the two movies one after the other.
Nidhi says, "The next movie after Paltan that my father now directs is the rural-western, action-powerful drama in the sense of Hathyar, Batwara, Ghulami and Kshatriya. He is moving slightly away from his war dramas this time. As my father says, his career has always been defined by the movies he grew up seeing. The first part of his career was western, as Ghulami and Batwara who were based in rural India and the second part concerned the war movies. So, the Western movie that we have planned is a biographical film, based on a real character who lived in the heart of Rajasthan in the 1980s. It's a film that starts and we plan to start shooting from the month from November to Rajasthan this year. "
But this is not the only film that JP Dutta and Nidhi have aligned. Nidhi says, "We are launching two films and the second is a historical drama based on Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the leader of the Sikh Empire. Once he's finished the rural western, he goes …