Ektaa R Kapoor, Rhea Kapoor Celebrate Success of Kareena Kapoor Khan, Tabu, Kriti Sanon’s ‘Crew,’ Tease Sequel: ‘The Chemistry Is Banging’ (EXCLUSIVE)
08.04.2024 - 11:39
/ variety.com
Naman Ramachandran Bollywood heist comedy “Crew,” starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Tabu and Kriti Sanon, is a hit and producers Ektaa R Kapoor and Rhea Kapoor are looking at a sequel. Directed by Rajesh A Krishnan (“Lootcase”) and written by hit “Veere Di Wedding” duo Nidhi Mehra and Mehul Suri, the film is produced by Balaji Motion Pictures and Anil Kapoor Films & Communication Network. It follows three flight attendants with a failing airline who get involved in gold smuggling to a fictitious Middle Eastern country in an operation that’ll save them and their unpaid colleagues financially.
The cast also includes Trupti Khamkar (Sundance short “Nocturnal Burger”), Diljit Dosanjh (Netflix film “Amar Singh Chamkila”), Kapil Sharma (Busan title “Zwigato”), Rajesh Sharma (“NH6”), Saswata Chatterjee (“Kahaani”) and Kulbhushan Kharbanda (“Mirzapur”). “Crew” released over the Easter weekend and, with an opening day worldwide gross of $2.5 million, became one of the highest female-led openers in the history of Hindi-language cinema. It has grossed $12.5 million to date.
Ektaa R Kapoor and Rhea Kapoor, who are not related, began producing together when the latter took the concept of female-led buddy comedy “Veere Di Wedding” to the former and got greenlit immediately. The film, directed by Shashanka Ghosh and starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sonam K Ahuja, Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania, released in 2018 and was a big hit. “When we made ‘Veere,’ at that time we genuinely made the film without any thought to box office, the film itself was something new, it had never been done, it was a risk in a lot of ways,” Rhea Kapoor told Variety.
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