Mumbai: Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor has learned the art of the traditional martial art Kalaripayattu for one of the fighting sequences of his upcoming film Shamshera.

Ranbir, who is coming to the big screen four years after delivering the blockbuster Sanju, is pitted against Sanjay Dutt, who plays Shuddh Singh, an evil, ruthless, cold-hearted brute force of nature.

The film features an edgy fight sequence inspired by Kalaripayattu, directed by Franz Spielhaus, who has previously choreographed films like Denzel Washington starrer Safe House and Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff’s blockbuster War.

Sharing the idea behind the sequence and how Ranbir executed it, director Karan Malhotra said, being set in the 1800s it was important that the action set pieces also look from that era and look like never before. scaled up. We wanted the audience to see something new and we tried to achieve that.

Ranbir plays the hero of the Hindi film and has to pull off incredible action sequences. One such scene required him to pull off a Kalaripayattu-inspired fight sequence that we actually shot on a dusty ground and create an arena that resembled the arena of those people. Times.

Karan further added, As an actor, Ranbir does anything new. So, when we told him about the scene, he wanted to do it and I remember he rehearsed the scene for several days with the action director of the sequence. Franz and his team.

The scene is shot on Bally, who has to fight an army general at a very crucial juncture of the film. It was a challenging shooting sequence.

It was hot, it was humid and it was really dusty. To make matters worse, it was also windy. But salute to Ranbir for pulling it off perfectly. This is one of the biggest highlight points of the film.

Produced by Aditya Chopra, Shamshera is slated to release on July 22, 2022 in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

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