Vikram Vedha (2022 film)
In March 2018, Pushkar–Gayathri were confirmed to be directing a Hindi remake of their Tamil film "Vikram Vedha" (2017), to be produced again by YNOT Studios; the project would be co-produced by Plan C Studios. Pushkar–Gayathri intended for the remake to maintain the "gritty" tone that the original film had, while Neeraj Pandey, the creative producer, would also be writing the screenplay. Although Pandey had previously avoided working on remakes because of his preference to write original material, he was interested in working on this project because of its parallels to Vikramaditya and Betal from the folktale collection "Baital Pachisi", which he felt was not yet done in Hindi cinema. Shah Rukh Khan was approached for the film, but declined. In August 2019, it was confirmed that Saif Ali Khan and Aamir Khan (no relation) would play Vikram and Vedha respectively. Saif differentiated Vikram from Sartaj Singh, another police officer he played in the web series "Sacred Games", saying Vikram is "much more dynamic, confident and strong" than Singh who was suicidal, and constantly picked on by others. After production delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic during which the writers also re-worked the script, Aamir left the project in December 2020 and was shortly thereafter replaced by Hrithik Roshan. As Vedha is from Kanpur, Roshan decided to speak with an Awadhi accent. Later, Radhika Apte was cast as Vikram's lawyer wife and Rohit Saraf signed on to play Vedha's brother. Yogita Bihani was also chosen to play a pivotal role. In September 2021, Sharib Hashmi was cast for another supporting role. Principal photography was initially planned to begin in mid-2020, when Aamir Khan was in the cast. After Roshan replaced him, it was to have begun in June 2021, but ultimately began on 15 October that year, with the first schedule taking place in Abu Dhabi. Before the schedule began, part of the sets originally built for "Tiger Zinda Hai" (2017) were reworked by "Vikram Vedha"s crew to resemble Lucknow and Kanpur. After the schedule ended within 27 working days, the second schedule began in Lucknow in early December. Saif Ali Khan finished his portions of the schedule by the end of the month. Apte, whose schedule was only 10 days, finished filming most of her portions by 26 April 2022. Filming wrapped by 10 June. The music is composed by Vishal–Shekhar, with lyrics by Manoj Muntashir. "Vikram Vedha" is scheduled to be released in theatres on 30 September 2022.
Production ; Filming
Production began in October 2021 and concluded in June 2022.