Filmmaker-producer Ram Gopal Varma announced on Friday that his upcoming film ‘D Company’ will be postponed owing to rise in Covid-19 cases in the country. The gangster drama film was earlier supposed to release on 26th March but now its release date has been deferred in light of major wave of Coronavirus in the country.
Varma took to Twitter to post the update, tweeting: “Due to the sudden severe covid rise in many parts of the country and also amid continuous news of new lockdowns, we at SPARK decided to postpone the release of D COMPANY ..A new date will be announced ASAP #DCompany @SparkSagar1.”
India's daily cases of Covid-19 crossed the 40,000 mark on Friday -- biggest jump in nearly four months. The government has now started actively engaging with all state and UT governments, especially those showing an upsurge in daily new cases and with a high caseload of active cases. The government has already asked the states to ensure that people follow COVID-appropriate behaviour like wearing of face masks, maintaining hand hygiene and social distancing.
‘D Company’ is said to be based on the life of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Budding actor Ashwat Kanth plays the gangster while Ashwat's brother Rudr Kanth will essay Dawood's late elder brother Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar.
Following his previous film "Company", which released in 2002, RGV has titled the upcoming movie "D Company", which is based on on the Mumbai based-D Company, headed by Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. Along with Dawood, the film will also feature the tales of other gangsters who survived under the roof of D-Company.
‘Satya’ filmmaker had shared the first look of ‘D Company’ in January and called it the ‘mother of all gangster films’. The film will be released in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
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