Filmmaker Nikkhil Advani is all set to return with his Batla House actor John Abraham in the period sports drama 1911. He revealed that shooting for this film will begin at the end of next year.
"1911 is based on a true story. It is about a football match that took place between the Mohun Bagan Club of India and the East Yorkshire Regiment in the year 1911. It's one of the most important events that ignited the freedom movement in India," said Nikkhil, adding: "It's a script that John Abraham and his team have been working on for the last five years. I believe Shoojit Sircar was going to direct the film but it didn't work out between him and John, but I loved the idea and the period of the film." Nikkhil Advani was interacting with the media at the eighth-anniversary celebration of his production house, Emmay Entertainments in Mumbai. Talking about his next project as a director, Nikkhil said: "Right now, I am committed to do 1911. I am going to start writing for that film. I am making that film with John Abraham and we will start shooting of that film at the end of next year because I like to take my time by doing research and prep work and then come up with a film." Nikkhil added that 1911 is a patriotic and nationalistic film. "It triggered off things where eleven men did not realize how they were energizing an entire country to take up kind of a movement which led to freedom of India in 1947," he said.
Nikkhil has often collaborated with John in the past. Apart from directing the actor in the recent Batla House and the 2007 film Salaam-e-Ishq, he also produced John's 2018 release, Satyameva Jayate. "John has two very big biceps and big shoulders. Literally, he carries us, whether it is Satyameva Jayate or Batla House or Satyameva Jayate or 1911. We have a joint venture between Emmay Entertainment and (John Abraham's production house) JA Entertainment. We are committed to do six films as a company, which, may be, I will direct or maybe he will act in. Definitely, however, we will come up with six interesting movies."
(Source: IANS)
