After Aamir’s Dangal, Ludhiana village Gujjarwal in fray for Salman, Ajay Devgn flicks too

Gujjarwal village near Ludhiana seems to have become the favourite place for Bollywood, after Aamir Khan's 'Dangal', makers of Salman Khan's 'Sultan' also visited the village for location hunting.

AAmir Khan, Dangal, Sultan, Salman Khan, Gujjarwal village, Salman Khan Sultan

“The villagers are ecstatic that our village has all of sudden become the most preferred location for big Bollywood stars to shoot their movies,” said village head of Gujjrawal on Sultan team coming to their village.

Gujjarwal village near Ludhiana seems to have become the favourite place for Bollywood, after Aamir Khan’s ‘Dangal’, makers of Salman Khan’s ‘Sultan’ also visited the village for location hunting.

Jaswinder Singh Grewal, sarpanch of Gujjarwal village, told Indian Express that the production team of ‘Sultan’ was also at the village, hunting for right locations. Not only Sultan, a team from Ajay Devgn upcoming movie ‘Son of Sardar 2’ was also in the village recently and took photos of some locations.

However, since the village panchayat of Gujjarwal has already signed an agreement with Aamir Khan’s production house till August 31, 2016 for Dangal, thus the team of ‘Sultan’ was denied permission to shoot in the village.

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Speaking to Indian Express, Grewal said, “The villagers are ecstatic that our village has all of sudden become the most preferred location for big Bollywood stars to shoot their movies. This will surely boost tourism in Gujjarwal and surrounding villages. However, it was not possible for us to allow the shoot of Sultan here as village is booked for Dangal shooting till next year. After completing one schedule of Dangal shoot, the team might return here for shoot after few months when Aamir loses weight. So till next August we cannot allow shoot of any other movie here.”

Based of real life story of Haryana-based wrestler Sultan Ali Khan, ‘Sultan’ director Ali Abbas Zafar recently shared photographs of famous Manakpur Shah Dargah and village Kila Raipur in Punjab.

Aamir Khan’s ‘Dangal’ too is based on real life story of Haryana based wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and for the shoot villages in Ludhiana including Gujjarwal, Kila Raipur, Narangwal, Dango and Leel have been given a complete Haryanvi makeover.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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