Within weeks of going on floors, the shoot of Mr Lele had to be called off after Vicky Kaushal and Bhumi Pednekar contracted the virus in the first week of April. The subsequent junta curfew imposed in Maharashtra only delayed matters further. Now, it is learnt that director Shashank Khaitan resumed the shoot of the comedy with Kaushal and Kiara Advani on June 15. The shoot was greenlit by producer Karan Johar only after the cast and crew got the first dose of the vaccine.

Shashank Khaitan