Vidya Balan joins Salman and Sanjay for Santoshi’s Lahore flick Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan are to star in Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Jis Lahore Nahin Dekhya Who Jamiya Nahin, and the film will be shot – not in Pakistan – but in India.
Santoshi confirms, “Shooting in Lahore seems impractical. Primarily because we may not get the architecture of the partition times any more. So Nitish Roy is building Lahore in Hyderabad for us. Every lane, by-line, the transportation, the electric wires will be recreated. Our set will look more like Lahore than Lahore itself.”
Santoshi continues, “This is my second pre-Independence film after The Legend of Bhagat Singh. And an even bigger challenge because I’ve to combine drama and fiction into history. While we are getting the cast and crew into place my art designer, Nitish Roy and I are doing extensive research on Lahore during the Partition. We want to replicate every detail.”
Vidya Balan will be playing Sanjay Dutt’s wife in the film while young gun Neil Nitin Mukesh has been signed up as the third lead.
