Sanjay Dutt switches gears to play ghostbuster in first horror comedy ‘Virgin Tree’
Sanjay Dutt switches gears to play ghostbuster in first horror comedy ‘Virgin Tree’
After essaying adversary roles action, drama, romance, comedy Sanjay Dutt who has explored it in his 43-year career,
now switches gears to play ghostbuster in first horror comedy ‘Virgin Tree’.
Even as an horror comedy has been starkly missing from his filmography, ‘The Virgin Tree’ his next co-production, fills that gap. While the project was announced in late 2022, it is now learnt that it’s being readied for an August 2024 release.
Producer Deepak Mukut shares, that apart from being a horror-comedy, the film is a musical too. Infact the genre of horror is doing well today. Sanjay’s character has lots of gadgets that he uses to hunt down spirits as he plays a ghostbuster.
The story revolves around a mysterious tree with supernatural forces.
Deepak Mukut reveals that Dutt brought the story to him and when he approached Sanju for a music video a few years back, he narrated the story to him and asked whether a collaboration is possible on it. They (Sanjay Dutt Deepak Mukut then finalised the script, cast and director. Sidhaant was an associate of Vikram Bhatt, who is an expert in the horror genre.
While The Virgin Tree is the working title, the producer says the team arrived at the name, owing to its pun. “The ‘vir’ refers to vardaan, which is a blessing in Hindi. The gin’ [is a play on] djinn. So, it is actually The Var-djinn Tree, but we plan to change the English title since they want to go in for something massy.
News Edit K.V.Raman
