A couple of weeks back it was reported that Sanjay Leela Bhansali had instructed his production team to demolish the sets of Alia Bhatt's much-anticipated movie Gangubai Kathiawadi as it was unused over the 2 months now since the lockdown was announced. And now sets of Akshay Kumar's upcoming period epic Prithviraj will also be taken down because the high cost maintenance during the coronavirus lockdown.

The on-going coronavirus pandemic has badly affected the Hindi film industry with shooting of many movies being stalled in middle.
With no filming expected to take place before the monsoon, the filmmakers reportedly took the decision to destroy the Dahisar sets, YashRaj Films has confirmed.

“The head honchos of Yash Raj Films had kept the set standing over the past two months, hoping that the situation would improve soon. However, with the rains only weeks away, it doesn’t seem feasible to retain the set any longer. The makers are currently procuring necessary permission to have it pulled down. Akshay had filmed a major portion of the Chandraprakash Dwivedi-directed drama at the Dahisar set before the lockdown was announced, but some crucial sequences have yet to be shot,” a report published in Mid-Day report quoted.

According to YashRaj, the sequences will now be shot at an indoor set, once filming is allowed to resume. Two sets were erected at Dahisar, according to the report. One was a palace and the other an arena in which an action sequence was supposed to be filmed.


Prithviraj also starring former Miss World Manushi Chhillar marking her Bollywood debut was supposed to release around Diwali this year.
Meanwhile, recently Akshay filmed a Covid-19 awareness campaign with government's permession at a Mumbai studio with director R Balki, having taken all the necessary precautions, including working with minimal crew.