Ranveer Singh's 'Pralay' Begins Filming in Mumbai — SkimNews
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- Ranveer Singh headlines and co-produces "Pralay," an end-of-the-world action thriller that has begun filming at live locations across the Mumbai region.
- Ananya Birla's Birla Studios, Hansal Mehta and Sahil Saigal's True Story Films, and Singh's Maa Kasam Films co-produce the film, with Jai Mehta directing.
- Kalyani Priyadarshan, who broke out with "Lokah Chapter One: Chandra" (2025), joins the cast in a pivotal role.
- Jai Mehta previously co-directed "Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story" (2020) with Hansal Mehta and directed "Lootere" (2024) for JioHotstar.
- The story is an original survival tale set against a global catastrophe backdrop, shot with crew drawn from India and abroad after several months of technically intensive pre-production.
- "Pralay" is Singh's next project after the "Dhurandhar" (2025) and "Dhurandhar – The Revenge" (2026) duology, which the source describes as among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.
Why it matters: Ananya Birla's Birla Studios — relatively new to feature production — lands one of Bollywood's top stars, while Hansal Mehta's True Story Films stakes its slate on a large-scale action film well outside the indie register Mehta is best known for. The Mehta father-son pairing (Jai directing, Hansal producing) and Priyadarshan's post-"Lokah" momentum give the project both prestige and commercial gravity, with Birla Studios explicitly framing it as work with "leading current names in Indian cinema."
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