Yash Raj Films’ Spy Universe will expand even further with the announcement of War 2, according to a report on Tuesday by Variety’s Naman Ramachandran. The film will be directed by Ayan Mukerji who takes the reins from Siddharth Anand who directed the inaugural 2019 film that featured Bollywood topliners Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, with Roshan now set to return for the second chapter.
As the lore has it, the YRF Spy Universe hails from producer Aditya Chopra and is a sprawling web of action-packed stories of espionage centered on Indian foreign intelligence agents battling dastardly terrorists in the face of betrayal, romantic intrigue, and surmounting odds, topped with the usual winsome musical numbers and striking action and stunt sequences. The tapestry first began in 2012 with Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif headlining Kabbir Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger, followed by Ali Abbas Zafar’s Tiger Zinda Hai in 2017, with Fan helmer Maneesh Sharma currently directing Khan’s third stint in the Tiger series slated for November.
The news comes following the announcement of a sequel to Anand’s Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) starrer, Pathaan, which opened in Janaury and featured which Khan’s Tiger character with SRK in an explosive action sequence that has the two fighting and shooting their way off of a speeding train.
Mukerji’s addition to the YRF Spy Universe comes following the recent success of last year’s superheroic Astraverse installment, Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva, starring Ranbir Kapoor in the role of a DJ whose ability to harness fire puts him in the throes of a fated battle with an ancient force of godly evil. The second and third continuations of Mukerji’s Astraverse trilogy will be released in 2026 and 2027.
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