A couple of years ago, Alia Bhatt and Salman Khan were to star together in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film titled Inshallah. Sadly, the movie was shelved, breaking the hearts of scores of cinephiles who wanted to see the two stars together on the big screen. But it wasn’t just their admirers who were sad to hear that the movie was scrapped. According to SLB, the National Award-winning actor was so affected that she locked herself in a room. 

While talking to The Hollywood Reported India, Sanjay Leela Bhansali was talking about finding the purity in actors as people when they come to him. This is when he went back and recalled the time when he was doing Inshallah with Alia Bhatt, and suddenly, it got shelved. “She broke down, she cracked up, cried, raved, ranted, locked herself in the room,” the filmmaker stated.

But one week later, he called her and said that she playing the leading lady in his magnum opus Gangubai Kathiawadi. At first, Bhatt was in doubt if she could play the role or not. The Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani actress told him, “From LA where I was supposed to be playing the character, I have come to Kamathipura. How do I do? I don’t know this character.” This is when the Padmaavat maker calmed her down, asking her to trust him. He then did his job as a director and tapped into her personality to bring out what he wanted for the character in the National Award-winning movie.

Soon after, Alia Bhatt started enjoying playing Gangubai and ‘flew into the role’. The actress got so engrossed in her that even today, she sometimes talks like the character, stated Bhansali. “It’s so much a part of it and it’s so beautiful,” he added. Having said that, Bhatt and Bhansali are all set to work again in the upcoming movie Love And War, also starring Ranbir Kapoor and Vicky Kaushal.

While talking to the same publication, the filmmaker stated that he wants to give his all to the film and the actors as it’s an important and difficult one. For the unknown, the epic love triangle is expected to hit cinemas in March 2026.

It’s been 30 years since Will Smith shared screen space with Michael Bay in Bad Boys. However, Deadline reported that the actors are eyeing a reunion in Netflix’s action film titled Fast and Loose. Reportedly, Bay is negotiating to direct the film, which will star Smith as one of the leads. 

The Pursuit of Happyness actor is also a co-producer on the project alongside Kelly McCormick and David Leitch for 87North. The story follows a man who wakes up in Tijuana with no memories; while piecing together his past, he realizes he’s been living two lives at once. One as a crime kingpin and the other as an undercover CIA agent.  

Fast and Loose is penned by Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chris Bremner, and Eric Pearson, while Robert Simonds and Noah Fogelson take the executive producer role for STXfilms. Bay and Smith’s pair became iconic in the 1995 action film Bad Boys. The film marked Bay’s directorial debut and became a huge commercial hit, earning three follow-up films — Bad Boys II, Bad Boys for Life, and the recently released Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

The original film followed “two hip detectives” trying to protect a murder witness “while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct,” as per the official synopsis. 

Both Smith and Bay created a significant career after delivering the cult classic action film. In 2021, the former earned an Oscar for his role as Richard Williams in King Richard. The following year, he starred in the Apple TV+ action-thriller Emancipation. The actor — whose filmography includes projects like Men in Black, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Aladdin, and many others — is set to appear in Sony Pictures’ sci-fi thriller Resistor. The film is based on Daniel Suarez’s 2014 novel Influx.

Bay’s credit includes the Transformers franchise and Pearl Harbor. The actor-director is in talks to develop a film or TV adaptation of the animated internet meme Skibidi Toilet with former Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman.