Director Shankar to team up with Ranveer Singh to make the biggest pan-Indian film after 'Baahubali'

Director S. Shankar is all set to collaborate with actor Ranveer Singh to create the biggest pan-India cinematic event after SS Rajamouli’s ‘Baahubali’. The project will reportedly be based on the cinematic adaptation of the Tamil epic novel Velpari.

A source told Pinkvilla that, ‘The novel has everything to offer – from a larger-than-life hero to incredible life lessons, to a heart-touching love story and magnificent visual-effect sequences whose scale will set the next benchmark of action spectacles in India. It is the wholesome nature of this novel that has got Shankar and Ranveer to come together for this collaboration.’

Pinkvilla report says the project will be a 3-part film in multiple Indian languages and the budget will be enormous.

‘The story is so vast and complex that all the aspects can’t be covered in one film. Shankar has devised a screenplay that lends itself to a three-part film. He intends to start shooting for the first part in the middle of 2023. This would be the biggest film of Shankar and Ranveer’s filmography to date,’ the source informed the publication.

It was previously reported that Ranveer Singh was roped in to do the remake of Shankar's iconic film 'Anniyan', however, that film has been shelved.

Ranveer has a couple of films lined up to release like Rohit Shetty’s 'Cirkus' which will hit the theatres on Christmas this year and Karan Johar’s 'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani' which will release next year.

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