Mumbai, July 29: If the show reel of Action Replayy is anything to go by, it will be director Vipul Shah who will be the winner.
The film is based on his own super-hit Gujarati stage play with the similar story line.
It is some 7-8 years that Vipul thought of making a film on his stage-play and that’s how Action Replayy came out. However, few know that when Salman Khan heard the script from Vipul, he expressed a desire to work in the film. But that was years ago and both Salman and Vipul forgot it.
Years after, when Salman learnt that Vipul Shah is coming up with Action Replayy, he immediately asked the filmmaker to make the film with him. Unfortunately, it was too late then as Vipul had already signed Akshay Kumar for the lead role and so couldn’t oblige Sallu bhai.
With Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai as the lead, the film frames the story of an old-age couple who are at the loggerheads with each other and in doing so; they get transported back in the time to re-ignite their dying romance.
——Agencies