Director Sanjay Gupta\u2019s upcoming film\nMumbai Saga was slated to be shot at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, with a\n30-member crew, including lead actors John Abraham<\/a> and Emraan Hashmi<\/a>. However, with rising cases of COVID-19<\/a>, Gupta has decided to call off the\nshoot down south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gupta, in a statement, informed that the\ndecision was taken in consultation with the leading actors and co-producer\nBhushan Kumar. He said, \u201cThe country recorded 30,000 cases in a single day.\nMoreover, the World Health Organisation\u2019s statement about the possibility of\nthe virus being airborne was alarming. It stated that the virus can remain in\nthe air in crowded closed spaces. Of the 14-day shoot that I had planned, we\nwere to film at three indoor sets for 10 days. That would have posed a risk. We\nwanted to shoot in Hyderabad, but now it\u2019s as unsafe as Mumbai. So, we might as\nwell do it in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He now plans to commence the final shoot in\nMumbai by August 15, but admits the schedule could be pushed further. \u201cJohn,\nEmraan and the rest of us were kicked about shooting, but we can\u2019t do so by\nputting everyone\u2019s health at risk. John was to finish the pending work on\nMumbai Saga before moving on to his next project. But with cases on the rise,\nwe decided it would be best to take stock of the situation after a month. We\nwill try to procure permission to shoot from August 15, and are considering\nthree studios, Mehboob, Essel and Film City. The dates are tentative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sanjay Gupta\u2019s Mumbai Saga is a period\ngangster film set in the 80s. It shows the transition of Bombay to Mumbai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With rising cases of COVID-19, director Sanjay Gupta has decided to call off the shoot of Mumbai Saga in Hyderabad. Director Sanjay Gupta\u2019s upcoming film Mumbai Saga was slated to be shot at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, with a 30-member crew, including lead actors John Abraham and Emraan Hashmi. However, with rising cases of COVID-19, Gupta has decided …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[82,11055,11382,2830,12789,12700,12732,13420,1331,6355,13422,8624],"class_list":["post-7949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-india-news","tag-bollywood","tag-bollywood-celebrity","tag-bollywood-fashion","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-style","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitalised","tag-hyderabad","tag-john-abraham","tag-mumbai-saga-to-be-shot-in-mumbai","tag-sanjay-gupta"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7951,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions\/7951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}