Kangana Ranaut-starrer Tejas will release on 5 October 2022. Directed by Sarvesh Mewara, the film will see Ranaut play an Air Force airman produced by Ronnie Screwvala To be sure, Screwvala, who quit showbiz nearly a decade ago after dealing his company UTV Software Dispatches to Walt Disney, has been scripting a big but quiet comeback to the entertainment business. Officially, the media stager speaks only of his online education company upGrad and his charitable adventure, The Swades Foundation. Still, his product house, RSVP Pictures, has been laboriously involved in producing both point flicks and web originals.
In the last many months, a range of web shows across languages, including Netflix’s florilegium dramatizations Paava Kadhaigal (Tamil) and Pitta Kathalu (Telugu), romantic comedy Mismatched, riddle suspenser Raat Akeli Hai, and a critically accredited short film starring Vidya Balan called Natkhat, have placed RSVP forcefully among the top content generators for OTT platforms. Web suits RSVP well given Screwvala’s partiality fornon-star-driven, realistic and conception-heavy subjects, a rule he followed indeed during UTV’s early days in a star-dependent Bollywood when it was also one of the first commercial workrooms in an assiduity ruled by family companies.
Kangana Ranaut‘Tejas The web shows were anteceded by an emotional launch at the box office with war drama Uri-The Surgical Strike that had made over ₹ 200 crores on its release in 2019 and a moderate success at around ₹ 70 crores Sushant Singh Rajput-starrer Kedarnath At UTV, Screwvala backed lower flicks and odd narratives, including slumberer successes similar as Khosla Ka Ghosla, Life … in a Metro, Mumbai Meri Jaan, A Wednesday!, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! and latterly The Lunchbox, long before Bollywood discovered similar high- end, civic themes for legion cult.
Piecemeal from Tejas, RSVP also backs another war drama, Pippa starring Ishaan Khatter and Mission Majnu starring Sidharth Malhotra.