Panipat director Ashutosh Gowariker reveals Kriti and Arjun were always his first choice

Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker is gearing up for release of his upcoming film, Panipat. This time, Ashutosh narrates story of Third Battle of Panipat, which was fought in 18th century. A video posted by an online site, Ashutosh has given his commentary to film’s trailer that was released earlier this month. Ashutosh talks about why he picked up story, entire process that he went through, choices of actors in film. He said that Arjun Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Kriti San were his first preference as Sadashiv Rao, Ahmad Shah Abdali and Parvati Bai. Watch video here.

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He also spoke about support that actors gave to making of film. As Arjun stayed bald for about six months and all of that contributed towards aunticity of film. Arjun Kapoor recently spoke about how Ashutosh has portrayed a very significant chapter of Indian history in most glorious way possible through his vision. Kriti San also praised director by saying that this was her first-period drama, as she played a character that was lived in history for very first time was very special and working with Ashutosh Gowariker was also a big thing for me.

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Ashutosh also explained how it was a big task to make film on a historical subject. He said that when choosing a historical movie, responsibility begins from writing of script. His approach towards it is that film must be auntic and realistic. audience must have a feeling that this is how war must have happened. Panipat also features Mohnish Bahl, Kunal Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, and Zeenat Aman. film is expected to hit silver screens on December 6, 2019.

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