Veteran Hindi film director and producer Subhash Ghai will now be producing his second Marathi movie, titled Vijeta, under his home banner, Mukta Arts. A sports drama, the film will be directed by Amol Shetge and have Subodh Bhave in the lead along with Pooja Sawant and Neha Mahajan.
The makers announced the film and shared its official poster. Interestingly, instead of being based on one sport, the film will feature various sports including sprinting, wrestling, shot put, weightlifting, cycling and boxing.
Ghai's first Marathi feature, Sanai Choughade (2008), also had Bhave, Shreyas Talpade, Santosh Juvekar and Sai Tamhankar.
Director Shetge has a number of Hindi and Marathi films to his credit like Gunaah (2002), Rain: The Terror Within... (2005), Sau Shashi Deodhar (2014), One Way Ticket (2016), etc. He has also directed a Bhojpuri film, Ravi Kisan (2008), that starred superstar Ravi Kisan.
Vijeta is co-produced by Rahul Puri. He has previously been associated with Mukta Arts in producing films like Khanna & Iyer (2007), Bombay To Bangkok (2008) and Black & White (2008).