Ranveer Singh's loss is Vicky Kaushal's gain for Meghna Gulzar's next film

Director Meghna Gulzar' directorial work consists of stellar movies like Raazi and recently released Chhapaak. Chhapaak garnered good reviews from members of industry including Ranveer Singh. Recently, a news did rounds that Simmba actor missed a chance of working with Meghna Gulzar.

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Ranveer Singh missed a chance to work with Meghna Gulzar

After Chhapaak, Meghna Gulzar is set to make a film on Field Marshal, Sam Manekshaw. According to a report by a news portal, Ranveer Singh was first choice of Meghna to play Sam Manekshaw, in his biopic. However, Ranveer kept delaying script narration, which resulted in filmmaker opting for her Raazi hero, Vicky Kaushal who said yes to project in time.

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report states that Meghna Gulzar had project scripted and ready. She was keen on Ranveer Singh to play Sam Manekshaw. y met and Ranveer seemed very excited.

But when it came to a narration, Ranveer allegedly did t have time, refore, Meghna simply decided to move to next project, which was on acid attack victim Laxmi Aggarwal titled Chhapaak which released a few days earlier.

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After working with Deepika, Meghna was having second thoughts about casting of biopic, as per reports. Neverless, Vicky Kaushal is w on board to play lead in film. first look of Vicky as Field Marshal was revealed which garnered audience appreciation.

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Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, also kwn as Sam Bahadur (Sam Brave) was  Chief of Army Staff of  Indian Army during  Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and first Indian Army officer to be promoted to rank of field marshal. His military career spanned four decades and five wars, beginning with service in  British Indian Army in World War II. biopic is slated to release in 2021.