The Bollywood spy-universe is witnessing a post Big Bang moment. After it was reported earlier that Jr NTR will join `War 2` as the antagonist, another movie from the spy-universe has locked the face for designation of director. The film `Tiger vs Pathaan` will be helmed by Siddharth Anand, who is basking in the historic success of `Pathaan`.
The film will showcase a ruthless face-off between the two of the biggest superstars of Indian cinema — Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.
Talking about the new development, a veteran trade source said, “Aditya Chopra has immense trust in Siddharth Anand to deliver a grand visual spectacle that has never been seen before with `Tiger vs Pathaan`. Siddharth is getting a dream cast of Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan coming together for their first full-fledged film since `Karan Arjun` and Siddharth will also be given all the support he needs to mount `Tiger vs Pathaan` as the biggest film that India has ever produced.”
Earlier, the fans of Sidharth were disappointed with him not directing `War 2` — the sequel to his 2019 blockbuster directorial when Ayan Mukerji was given the charge as the director but, it seems like producer Aditya Chopra is entrusting Sid with a bigger responsibility having seen his brilliant work of extracting the best out of SRK and Salman in the cross-over scene from `Pathaan` and also looking at his brilliant track record at the box-office considering his blockbuster hattrick with `Bang Bang!`, `War` and `Pathaan`.
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The source further mentioned, “YRF`s war chest and its entire creative might is ready to roll out a film that should go down in the history of Indian cinema as a record-smashing blockbuster.”
YRF Spy Universe is now one the biggest IPs in Indian cinema.
From a timeline point of view, YRF`s spy universe started in 2012 when Salman Khan took charge as Tiger in `Ek Tha Tiger`. In 2017, Salman reprised the role of the super-spy in `Tiger Zinda Hai`. In 2019, Hrithik Roshan made his entry into the universe as the suave super-spy Kabir in `War`. With `Pathaan`, Shah Rukh Khan entered the YRF spy universe as the super-agent Pathaan and delivered a mammoth global blockbuster.
However, the crossover of spies from this universe only began with `Pathaan` in what will go down in the pages of history as one of the best cinematic moments of mainstream Hindi cinema.
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