Farhan Akhtar and Kriti Sanon team up for Nikkhil Advani’s next

Filmmaker Nikkhil Advani’s upcoming project titled ‘Lucknow Central’ will star actors Farhan Akhtar and Kriti Sanon. Apparently, Farhan’s character will be a prisoner and he will be starting a band in jail to increase self confidence and to bring about happiness.

Now we have news that Kriti Sanon has been roped in for the female lead, but there won’t be a romantic angle between the two actors. Kriti’s role will be of an NGO worker who helps the jail inmates to restructure their life. The equation that Farhan and Kriti will be sharing in the movie will be of mutual respect.

According to a source close to the project, “Kriti’s look in the film will be simple and easy to relate to. Farhan’s band will have four other members. So far, Angad Bedi and Deepak Dobriyal have been signed and the team is still looking for two other actors to complete the band. Farhan picks out four jail mates and trains them in music while they are all serving out their sentence. Being part of a band in real life too, Farhan was the obvious choice for the part. The others are raw and untrained but with potential and promise. Farhan as their mentor transforms them into better human beings altogether.”

The film will be mostly shot in Mumbai and Lucknow and will be helmed by Advani’s assistant Ranjit Tiwari. The prison portions are most likely to be canned on a set. The film will be kicking off by the end of this year.

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