Jigra: ‘Vedang Raina matches step by step with Alia Bhatt while playing THIS sport’ – Exclusive | Hindi Movie News – Times of India

Few months back, ETimes had exclusively shared the news that Alia Bhatt has been learning basketball for her upcoming production Jigra, which is directed by Vasan Bala. Karan Johar is also part of the film as the producer. We reported that experts have been hired by the makers to teach Alia the basics of the game, and our sources shared that Alia has gotten much better at basketball.
Now, we have exclusively learnt that Alia was not alone in learning the game. The ‘Archies‘ actor, and her co-star Vedang Raina was also part of the training session. ‘Basketball plays a very important subplot in the film. With Alia and Vedang playing siblings in the film, basketball is one of the important aspects of their life which brings them together. The film will have sequences, where the two of them will be seen playing the game together.”
Jigra was earlier slated to release on 27th September, but when Pushpa – The Rule moved away from 15th August, it led to a lot of changes in the movie release calendar. Hence, makers of Jigra shifted it to to 11th October , the date now coincides with the Dusshera holiday on 12th.
The story of the film revolves around two siblings played by Alia and Vedang. Their life goes for a toss when Vedang gets wrongfully arrested, and Alia takes it on herself to secure his release.