It is the most sensational teaming of talent in quite a while. The very talented Shimit Amin, who once directed Shah Rukh Khan in the iconic Chak De India in 2007 and who has since then directed only one other feature film in 2009, has been coaxed out of voluntary retirement by Kartik Aaryan for a real-life airborne story.
The film is titled Captain India. Kartik would actually be learning to fly.
A source close to the project reveals, “It is a real-life mid-air survival story. Director Shimit Amin is known to favour authenticity. He really can’t have Kartik faking the piloting. Kartik will actually learn how to fly a plane so that he is a hundred percent prepared for the part.”
Captain India is the real-life story of a commercial pilot who risked his own life to save hundreds of passengers.
