Tiger Vs Pathaan: Sidharth Anand is the director; all we know so far is that 2024 (August 7)

Tiger Vs Pathaan: Sidharth Anand is Going to Direct the Upcoming Big Budget – Everything You Need to Know

The director of Pathaan, Siddharth Anand has made a big announcement with the film Tiger vs Pathaan, an upcoming instalment in Yash Raj Films’ Spy Universe franchise. After Karan Arjun, the Khan friend Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan is going to share the screen once again which will portray a face-off between two of India’s biggest stars, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, Deadline has learned.  

Shah Rukh Khan portrays the character of a super-agent named Pathaan in the movie, while Salman Khan takes on the role of Tiger.

“Aditya Chopra has immense trust in Siddharth Anand to deliver a grand visual spectacle that has never been seen before with Tiger vs Pathaan,” a trade source told Deadline.  

“Siddharth is getting a dream cast of Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan coming together for their first full-fledged film since Karan Arjun and Siddharth will also be given all the support he needs to mount Tiger vs Pathaan as the biggest film that India has ever produced.” 

Tiger Vs Pathaan: The YRF Spy Universe has just got even spicier!

Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan starred together in the 1995 fantasy action film Karan Arjun, but haven’t appeared in a full movie together since. Salman Khan had a cameo role in the blockbuster Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan and directed by Anand, which was the first film to bring characters from the YRF Spy Universe franchise together.  

YRF’s spy universe has also included the first two Tiger films – Ek Tha Tiger (2012) and Tiger Zinda Hai (2017). The third film in the Tiger franchise, again starring Salman Khan, is scheduled for release over the Diwali holidays in November.  

Released in January, Pathaan has become the highest-grossing Hindi-language film of all time grossing $128.8M worldwide. Anand also directed the 2019 blockbuster War, starring Hrithik Roshan, which is also part of the YRF Spy Universe.  

The trade source added: “YRF’s war chest and its entire creative might is ready to roll out a film that should go down in the history of Indian cinema as a record-smashing blockbuster.” 

Ayan Mukerji (Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva) has made to direct War’s sequel, War 2, which will feature RRR star N.T. Rama Rao Jr  (aka NTR Jr) is the opposite of Roshan. 

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