Sidharth Malhotra Roped In For An Action Espionage Thriller With Ronnie Screwvala’s Banner – Reports

Sidharth Malhotra will reportedly be illustrating the role of a RAW agent in Pakistan in the movie. Read on to know full details.

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New Delhi: Sidharth Malhotra made his Bollywood debut with the movie ‘Student Of The Year’ in the year 2012 alongside Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan. The ‘Ek Villain’ actor started his career as a model at the age of 18. Not fully satisfied with his profession as a model, Sidharth then went to work as a trainee assistant director to Karan Johar in the movie ‘My Name Is Khan’. Though most of his films did not do well, Sidharth delivered a box office success with the movie ‘Marjaavaan’ in the year 2019. The movie also starred Tara Sutaria, Riteish Deshmukh, and Rakul Preet Singh in pivotal roles. Now, based on reports of PinkVilla, a source revealed that “Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP has been planning an action film for some time now. It's an espionage thriller which will be mounted on a big scale. They wanted a young actor to play the lead and offered it to Sidharth. He liked the script and agreed to be part of the project. The film is a well conceptualised spy thriller with several stunts and action sequences in it.” The source further disclosed that the ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’ actor will be portraying the role of a RAW agent in Pakistan and the movie revolves around the India-Pakistan cross-border relationship. The source was quoted saying by the portal, “After Uri worked wonders for the banner, the team was working on this film's pre-production, which revolves around the India-Pakistan cross border relationship. Sidharth will play a RAW agent in Pakistan.” Other than this, the ‘Aiyaary’ actor has ‘Shershaah’ lined up for release next year opposite Kiara Advani. This movie is a biographical war action film helmed by Vishnuvardhan tracing the life journey of Army Captain Vikram Batra. Reportedly, Sidharth has also signed two other films including ‘Thadam’ remake and Indra Kumar’s ‘Thank God’. He will also star in the Hindi remake of Allu Arjun’s movie ‘DJ’. Watch this space for more updates.