Film is directed by Vikas Bahl.
By Akanksha Warrier
MUMBAI: After wooing audience with her brilliant performances in ‘Highway’ and ‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania’, actress Alia Bhatt has begun shooting for her upcoming film ‘Shandaar’.
The film is directed by Vikas Bahl of ‘Queen’ fame and has Shahid Kapoor playing Alia Bhatt’s love interest.
“Today is day one of #Shaandaar !!!! Wish me luck. Start of a new beautiful journey!!! Wohoo,” Alia, 21, posted on Twitter a couple of days back.
Shahid and Alia are in Saltburn shooting for the movie, said reports. It’s billed as a comedy which sees two Indian families coming together for a big wedding.
Assistant director Karl Hall said that the Saltburn coast in England was the perfect place to shoot footage. Sweeping beaches, cliffs, big skies, surf, seabirds, Saltburn has them all and is a tourist’s favorite place to be.
“We are mainly doing establishing shots and cutaways, but we have the main characters here as well and we’re doing some dialogue,” he said.
“We are splitting the shooting between England, Mumbai and Poland and a lot of the English scenes have been done in Leeds and West Yorkshire. When we needed to find a coastal location, Saltburn has been recommended and it was a great choice. It looks great on camera,” he said.
The film will be primarily aimed at the Asian market, but Hall said that Bollywood releases are also huge in Britain.
Both the actors are in the news a lot, with Alia’s comic video going viral on YouTube and Shahid’s intense drama Haider coming up in theaters.