Amitabh Bachchan has boarded the cast of Deepika Padukone and Prabhas-starrer multilingual sci-fi film, the makers announced on Friday.

Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan has boarded the cast of Deepika Padukone and Prabhas-starrer multilingual sci-fi film, the makers announced on Friday.

Nag Ashwin will direct the Vyjayanthi Movies project, which will see Bachchan play a pivotal role.

Amitabh Bachchan

Aswini Dutt, producer and founder of Vyjayanthi Movies, said he is elated to have Bachchan on board.

“The late legendary Shri NTR was an admirer of Shri Amitabh Bachchan and had even acted in the Telugu remakes of a few of his superhit Bollywood films. Shri NTR and I had watched the landmark film ‘Sholay' several times when it ran for over a year at NTR's Ramakrishna Theatre.

“After all these years, it is truly a glorious and immensely satisfying moment for me to welcome Indian cinema’s greatest icon, Shri Bachchan to be a part of this prestigious movie under our banner, Vyjayanthi Movies,” Dutt said in a statement.

Ashwin said he feels lucky to have the opportunity to work with the cinema icon.

Deepika Padukone“I feel lucky and blessed that Bachchan Sir has selected our film among the many choices he has... It is a full-length role, which we believe will do justice to the legend that he is.”

Vyjayanthi Movies had announced the project in July to mark the golden jubilee of the banner.

The film is slated for a worldwide release in 2022.