Siddharth Malhotra starring ‘Shershah’ shooting commenced today.

Published On: 07 May 2019 | Bollywood | By: Saurabh S Nair

The film is based on the true story of Kargil war veteran Vikram Batra directed by Vishnu Vardan. The film also co-stars Kiara Advani.

B-town is busy producing biopics and Siddharth Malhotra is the actor added in this stream of biopics.

Shershah is the upcoming film of the actor co-starring Kiara Advani which is based on Kargil war veteran Vikram Batra.

The first day of shoot for #Shershaah in the presence of Lt. Gen Y.K. Joshi (then Lt. Col) & Commanding Officer of 13 JAK Rifles during Kargil War 1999 and Vishal Batra, brother of Vikram Batra.@SidMalhotra @Advani_Kiara @vishnu_dir pic.twitter.com/PijfEASWCi
— Dharma Productions (@DharmaMovies) May 7, 2019

Vikram Batra led one of the toughest operations in mountain warfare in Indian history. He was often referred to as ‘'Sher Shah'’ ("Lion King") in the intercepted messages of the Pakistan Army.

The Kargil hero was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra - India's highest war-time gallantry award,

The film will be produced by Dharma Productions and Shabbir Boxwala and will be directed by Vishnu Varadhan from a story written by Sandeep Srivastava.

A few days ago, the makers announced the film and Karan tweeted about it.

Beginning the journey of #Shershaah soon!@SidMalhotra @Advani_Kiara @vishnu_dir #HirooJohar @apoorvamehta18 @b_shabbir #AjayShah #HimanshuGandhi @dharmamovies pic.twitter.com/QBoxMeBDcv
— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) May 2, 2019