Gulabo Sitabo

Gulabo Sitabo

Gulabo Sitabo is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Shoojit Sircar, produced by Ronnie Lahiri and Sheel Kumar, and written by Juhi Chaturvedi. Set in Lucknow, it stars Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana as warring men.[1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film will not be released theatrically and will stream worldwide on Prime Video from 12 June 2020

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan as Gulabo

Ayushmann Khurrana as Sitabo

Production

In May 2019, in an interview Shoojit Sircar informed that Juhi Chaturvedi and he worked on the script. He also revealed Chaturvedi came up with a quirky story. He said, "As soon as I read the script, I shared it with Mr Bachchan and Ayushmann at the same time. I thought it would take some time to develop and take it forward, but everyone was so enthusiastic to work on this script, they figured out their dates and here we are..." He further informed that the title of the film is a colloquial term used in Lucknow[1]

Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana were cast for the lead roles, making it their first film together. The filming began in the third week of June 2019 in Lucknow.[4]

Marketing and release

The first look of Amitabh Bachchan from the film, a quirky teaser poster was presented on 21 June. The film was scheduled for release on 17 April 2020.[1]

The release date of the film was initially announced for November 2019, but was then advanced to 28 April and later preponed to February 28. The film's release date was again postponed to 17 April. The film was then scheduled to be released on 17 April 2020,[5] and then was further postponed.[6]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film will not be released theatrically and will stream worldwide on Prime Video from 12 June 2020