EXCLUSIVE: Visfot starring Fardeen Khan-Riteish Deshmukh and The Miranda Brothers featuring Harshvardhan Rane to release directly on Jio Cinema.
Fardeen Khan made a stunning comeback this year with the much-talked-about web series, Heeramandi. The actor featured as Wali Bin Zayed-Al Mohammed in it and Sanjay Leela Bhansali directed it. Not with standing, before signing up for Heeramandi, Fardeen Khan had agreed to act in Visfot as his return movie. Besides that, we have come into the knowledge that this gritty thriller will bypass the theatrical release and go straight to OTT.
“According to Bollywood Hungama’s trade source, Jio Cinema has now acquired Visfot which is expected to be available anytime soon,” said an insider. This is a film by Sanjay Gupta whose other directorial venture The Miranda Brothers will also drop on the streaming giant. To begin with, Visfot will be shown first on Jio Cinema while The Miranda Brothers would follow.
Visfot is directed by Kookie Gulati and produced by Bhushan Kumar besides being graced by Ritesh Deshmukh and Priya Bapat as well as Krystal D’Souza. However, the film itself is just an official remake of Venezuelan 2012 movie Rock-Paper-Scissors having reports of Riteish playing a pilot whose son gets abducted by Fardeen’s character.
Meanwhile, The Miranda Brothers also stars Meezaan Jafri and Sahher Bambba set in Goa with dialogues written by Milap Zaveri for it.
In December 2022 Sanjay Gupta conversed exclusively with Bollywood Hungama declaring both these films were always primed for digital output saying “We were clear that it’ll go straight to digital. We shot those films accordingly. So from day 1, it was decided that these will be OTT releases.”
“It is however true that despite being digital, these movies remain very cinema like. Most of the content created in Hindi and released directly on the OTT platforms is not cinematic,” he also said, “Usme woh bade parde waali baat nahin hai. I am trying to bridge that gap in my films. When you watch (Visfot or my directorial venture), you’ll remark ‘Yeh bade parde ki picture main chote parde pe dekh raha hoon’.”
