Mukesh Khanna as Shaktimaan (courtesy iammukeshkhanna)
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- Mukesh Khanna said details would be shared “gradually”
- He played the superhero in the popular television series
- Mukesh Khanna collaborated with a “big production house”
New Delhi:
Actor Mukesh Khanna, best known for playing the titular superhero on the TV show Shaktimaan, announced he would be making a three-movie series based on the superhero. In an Instagram post on Friday, the 62-year-old actor made the announcement in Hindi and wrote: “Ab baat duniya ko batane layak ho gai hai ki Shaktimaan dobara abtarit ho raha hai. Ji haan Shaktimaan ke doston, ab officially ye bata raha hoon ki main Shaktimaan 2 the kar aa raha hoon (It is time to tell the world that Shaktimaan is reincarnating. Yes, friends of Shaktimaan, I now officially declare that I bring Shaktimaan 2 soon. This also not on the TV channel or on OTT but as a trilogy, in the form of three films on the big screen). “
In the second part of his post, Mukesh Khanna added that: “The details of dheere dheere hum reveal karenge. Filhaal itna bata sakta hoon ek bahut bade production house ke saath maine haath milaya hai is himalayan task ko anjaam dene ke liye (Details will be revealed gradually. For now, I can say that I have collaborated with a major production house to bring their Herculean task to life). “
Mukesh Khanna ended his post with a promise that the new Shaktimaan movies will be bigger than Hrithik Roshan’s superhero franchise Krrish, and also of Shah Rukh Khan Ra.One – Mr. Khanna seems to have misspelled Ra.One as ‘Raavan‘, which is also a movie but a crime thriller and not a superhero sci-fi movie. Mukesh Khanna also shared the link from a Bollywood Hungama report, which states that work on the debut film of the Shaktimaan the series will debut in 2021.
Read Mukesh Khanna’s Shaktimaan announcement of the trilogy here:
In an interview with Bombay Times earlier this year, Mukesh Khanna said: “Over the past three years we are working on the release of the second edition of Shaktimaan, which is contemporary, but anchored in our values. We were working on the sequel because people wanted to know, aage kya hua. “Talk to Mumbai mirror barely a month later, Mr Khanna said: “The new version of Shaktimaan cannot be the way Ekta Kapoor did the Mahabharat (in 2008) by putting a tattoo on Draupadi’s shoulder. She had said she was making the Mahabharat for modern people. Modern Sanskriti kabhi nahi ho sakti, putri. Jis din Sanskriti modern ko karoge, khatam ho jayegi“(Culture can never be modern. The day you try to make it modern, it will be over).”
Shaktimaan It is said to be India’s first superhero show, which aired on Doordarshan from 1997 to 2005. Mr. Khanna played there the famous superhero and his alter ego Pandit Gangadhar Vidyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri .
