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'Gunday' recreates real life Calcutta of the '80s'

7th March 2013

Yash Raj Films' 'Gunday' has started its next shooting schedule in Kolkata.

The team recreated a set that replicates Calcutta back in the 80s. A dramatic Durga Puja sequence was shot under the Howrah Bridge, and reportedly a whopping 60 lakhs was spent to make this set.

Kolkata was brought to a standstill with a crowd of over 1000 ecstatic and overjoyed people chanting slogans – "Joy Bikram! Joy Bala!" The city of Joy is revelling in friendship between Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, both onscreen and off screen.

Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and produced by Aditya Chopra, the film stars Ranveer and Arjun, as Bikram and Bala, along with Priyanka Chopra and Irrfan Khan, in lead roles.

During Calcutta's most unsettled times, the inseparable Bikram and Bala, grew from being small time, inconsequential wagon breakers and coal thieves, to becoming the biggest and most powerful black marketing mafia men.

As the infamy of these two renegades spread far and wide, the people of this sprawling city started calling these two happy-go-lucky rebels, 'Gunday'.

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