Karan Johar announces film on R&AW founder RN Kao as next Dharma project

Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions will bring the story of R&AW founder and spymaster RN Kao’s story to the big screen.

Filmmaker Karan Johar has announced his next project as a producer. The film will be adaptation of Nitin Gokhale’s book, R.N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster.

Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions has multiple projects in the pipeline. (IANS)

“Turning pages into frames, one thrill at a time. Bringing to you an adaptation of Nitin Gokhale’s book - R.N.Kao: Gentleman Spymaster to the silver screen. More information coming soon,” Karan wrote in a tweet. He shared more information about the film as well.

R.N. Kao the chief of R&AW played a major role in both Sikkim integration and 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. (RN Kao: Gentleman Spymaster/Nitin A. Gokhale)

In the book strategic affairs analyst and author, Gokhale, writes how the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) ran a 27-month-long, ruthless operation between December 1972 and May 1975 and started an uprising against Sikkim’s ruler to annex it to India.

Other than this project, Dharma is juggling multiple highly-anticipated films. There is Rohit Shetty directorial Sooryavanshi with Akshay Kumar; Janhvi Kapoor-starrer Gunjan Saxena The Kargil Girl; Dostana 2 with Janhvi and Kartik Aaryan; and Karan’s own directorial, Takht.

Their last film, Good Newwz has done stellar business in India and overseas. It has collected ₹177 crore in two weeks. Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted on Wednesday, “#GoodNewwz crosses ₹ 175 cr... Faces multiple new films tomorrow [Fri]... Biz in Week 3 pivotal, since it begins its journey towards ₹ 200 cr... [Week 2] Fri 8.10 cr, Sat 11.70 cr, Sun 14.40 cr, Mon 5.40 cr, Tue 5.04 cr, Wed 4.77 cr. Total: ₹ 177.31 cr. #India biz.”

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