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Has the
Ranbir Kapoor-Alia Bhatt starrer Brahmāstra been the worst hit by the pandemic
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Director Ayan Mukerji and producer Karan Johar’s ambitious venture Brahmāstra has been plodding on for more than three years due to production and post-production delays. And now with coronavirus restrictions, the film has been indefinitely stuck. Sumita Chakraborty investigates why this ambitious venture – the part one of a trilogy has been stuck for so long. Read on… Announced with a lot of fanfare – the title logo of the film was revealed on March 4, 2019 and on the same evening; the logo of the film was launched on Maha Shivratri at the Kumbh Mela. In first of its kind, 150 drones were used to light up the skies to form the logo. Furthermore, a video of the launch of the logo at Kumbh Mela 2019 was released by Fox Star Hindi the very next day.
On March 6, 2019, the official logo of the film was released in Telugu and Tamil by Baahubali director SS Rajamouli and Tamil actor Dhanush. Indeed, it was a spectacular and expensively sensational launch which no film in the history of Bollywood has ever had or seen. And, why not? Said to be a part of an ambitious trilogy, the launch of this fantasy meets mythology and adventure film was sheer magic. No wonder, this film was touted as one of the biggest and most expensive ever in the film industry. So obviously, an ambitious venture with an amazing ensemble cast like this would indeed be a treat for the audience. Fantasy Meets Adventure Yes, we are talking about Ayan Mukerji’s super ambitious action-adventure Brahmāstra, pro-
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