Mumbai:
Actor Akshay Kumar met with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is in Mumbai, on Tuesday and discussed his upcoming film “Ram Setu,” sources said.
The actor met the chief minister for dinner at the Trident Hotel in Mumbai.
The film, which will be directed by Abhishek Sharma, aims to tell the story of the Ram Setu Bridge.
Bollywood producer Rahul Mittra had previously told the new agency PTI that Yogi Adityanath is scheduled to meet with a delegation of Bollywood filmmakers on Wednesday to discuss the future of the proposed film city in the state.
In September, the prime minister of Uttar Pradesh unveiled an ambitious plan to establish a film city in Noida and made an open offer to the film fraternity to come to the state to make films.
Filmmakers such as Subhash Ghai, Boney Kapoor, Rajkumar Santoshi, Sudhir Mishra, Ramesh Sippy, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Madhur Bhandarkar, Umesh Shukla, T series director Bhushan Kumar, Jayantilal Gada of Pen Studios and producer Siddharth Roy Kapur are part of the delegation invited to the meeting.
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