Filmmaker Ayan Mukerji’s much-awaited big scale fantasy adventure epic Brahmastra, featuring Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, is set to release on September 9, 2022. 

In the film, Kapoor plays Shiva, a man with supernatural powers. The Karan Johar-backed production also features Alia Bhatt and megastar Amitabh Bachchan. The first part of the film, billed as a trilogy, will be released in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Mukerji said the film is mounted on a humongous budget and the team worked hard to get its VFX, action set-pieces right but would not call it a “superhero” project. “I know the term superhero gets used with the film a lot, because it is sort of in that genre. But in my mind, it is not a superhero film. It is a fantasy adventure epic. It is a modern mythology piece. Shiva is closer to a modern representation of a deva than a western superhero.