Ajay Devgn has signed his next film which will be directed by Rajkumar Gupta of No One Killed Jessica fame and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak.
Set in Uttar Pradesh in the 80s, the film will revolve around high profile income tax raids that had taken place around that time. Devgn will play an Income Tax officer in this action-packed film, which will go on floors from September. The script has been written by Ritesh Shah, who is known for his work in Pink and Airlift.
Talking about the film, director Raj Kumar Gupta says, “Raid is a story that needs to be told on the big screen. I am looking forward to my collaboration with Ajay sir, Bhushanji, Kumarji and Abhishek on this film.”
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Producer Bhushan Kumar says, “Ajay Devgn is a great actor. We have produced Baadshaho and are now happy to be also producing Raid. It is a content driven film and we are excited to produce it.”
Abhishek Pathak says, “As producers, we are always on the lookout for exciting material and it all starts there and with Raid, it is a continuation of our thought-process of backing films with content like Special Chabbis and Drishyam which we produced and Rustom which we acquired for all India distribution.”
The film is scheduled to release on April 20, 2018.