Filmmaker Karan Johar gave fans of Amitabh Bachchan a surprise to celebrate the septuagenarian actor’s 75^th birthday today. While Mr. Bachchan himself is in the Maldives, daringly challenging the Indian Ocean with adventurous water sports, KJo announced an ambitious film for August 15, 2019 that will star Mr. Bachchan with Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt and be directed by Ayan Mukerji. It’s called Brahmastra, which in Sanskrit means a powerful and highly explosive weapon, and according to mythology was created by Lord Brahma for the purpose of upholding Dharma and Satya – the truth and laws of the cosmos.
The announcement of Brahmastra comes a day after Karan announced he is joining Akshay Kumar to make Kesari, a film based on the Battle of Saragarhi, which his tweet said was “one of the bravest battles fought in India”. This time, KJo tweeted that Dharma Productions was embarking on a journey into the realm of a fantasy adventure series which will be a trilogy. Fox Star Studios and Namit Malhotra are joining hands with him on this one.

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Bollywood circles were abuzz with speculation two days ago that KJo was renaming his much-awaited superhero film Dragon to be directed by Ayan asBrahmastra. Talk on Dragon has been making news for a while with Mr. Bachchan being approached to play a pivotal role in the superhero film with Ranbir and Alia. Dragon was written by Niranjan Iyengar and its screenplay done by Ayan himself. The music is to b by Pritam, cinematography by Julius Packiam, cinematography by Sudeep Chatterjee. Mr. Bachchan, incidentally, is already seen as a superhero in the animated TV series Astra Force by Disney Channel. He plays the superhero Astra who fights aliens and other enemies of earthlings.