Ranveer Singh's 'Pralay' Begins Filming in Mumbai
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- Ranveer Singh's end-of-the-world action thriller "Pralay" has begun filming in Mumbai, with Singh starring and producing through his Maa Kasam Films banner
- Ananya Birla's Birla Studios co-produces alongside Hansal Mehta and Sahil Saigal's True Story Films, with Mehta calling the project "the kind of film that India hasn't made yet"
- Jai Mehta directs "Pralay"; his prior credits include co-directing SonyLIV's "Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story" (2020) with Hansal Mehta and directing "Lootere" (2024)
- Kalyani Priyadarshan joins the cast in a pivotal role following her breakout in "Lokah Chapter One: Chandra" (2025)
- "Pralay" is an original survival story centered on a world facing catastrophe, shooting at live locations across the Mumbai region for added scale and realism
- The film follows Singh's "Dhurandhar" (2025) and "Dhurandhar – The Revenge" (2026) duology, which rank among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time
- Production moved into filming after several months of technically intensive pre-production
Why it matters: "Pralay" anchors Singh's post-"Dhurandhar" return while bringing Birla Studios into partnership with established filmmakers Hansal and Jai Mehta. The team's choice to shoot across live Mumbai locations, plus Mehta's claim the film is unprecedented for Indian cinema, signals an ambition for survival-action scale that goes beyond standard Bollywood production conventions.
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