New Delhi, July 22 (UNI) Director Ali Abbas Zafar on Sunday announced his new film "Bharat" and started its shooting featuring superstar Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Disha Patani in lead roles.

The team has shot the muharat shot of a circus with Salman and the entire cast alongside. The shooting will take place at an elaborate studio and will continue till August, after which they will move to Malta, followed by a schedule in Abu Dhabi.

Zafar shared,"The idea is to create an Indian-Russian circus like Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker. Performers from all over the world are flying down for the circus tricks which will be a mix of trapeze hoops and rope stunts. Salman plays a daredevil stunt motorcyclist in the circus while Disha is a trapeze artiste who plays with fire.”

Salman and Disha will also go through a metamorphosis through the course of the film, Zafar said and further informed that prosthetics will take Salman back to his Karan-Arjun days.

Salman was busy during these days because of his highly popular Dabangg concert tour which ended recently.

Zafar said, "We will be ending the Mumbai schedule with a Holi song featuring Priyanka. She will have different looks in the film which the team has been working on in great detail. The film travels from the 1960s to the present day."

Directed by Zafar, produced by Atul Agnihotri's Reel Life Production Pvt Ltd and Bhushan Kumar's T-Series would be released on Eid next year.

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