Squad (2020 film)


Squad is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language Action film written, directed and produced by Nilesh Sahay. It is also produced by Brajesh Sahaya, Mohan gopinath, and Zee Cinema. Veteran ad-film producer/director Manish Pandya is the executive producer. Shobha Nihalani co-wrote the screenplay along with Nilesh Sahay.
The films cast includes Rinzing Denzongpa, Pooja Batra and Malvika Raaj in lead roles.
Squad is the first Indian film to be shot in Belarus. Principal photography of the film commenced on 23 September 2019 at Belarusfilm studios in Minsk.

Premise

Squad centers around a battle royal of Special Forces with an emotional relationship at its core, between Bhim, a MARCOS commando turned army deserter, and Mimi, an orphaned 6-year-old child who knows nothing about her life or family. The only thing they have in common is their loneliness in the world.

Cast

It was announced in November 2018 that Rinzing Denzongpa, son of Danny Denzongpa, was to star in the film. While it was originally set to be directed by Jyoti Kapur Das, she later backed out, and Nilesh Sahay took over as Director. Malvika Raaj, was bought on board to play the female lead in February 2019. Malvika, famous for playing the younger "poo" in Kabhi khushi Kabhi Gam, is the niece of veteran actress Anita Raaj, and grand daughter of legendary Jagish Raj Khurana. In order get the best action possible, Producer Nilesh Sahay went out of his way to get legendary stunt co-ordinator Keir Beck, and Fight choreographer Maciej Kwiatkowski on board. Dishita Jain, Amit gaur, Tanisha Dhillon, Ashish Tyagi & Abdullah Osman were cast in the film, shortly before it went on floors in September.

Filming

Although filming was originally meant to commence in April 2019 Minsk, delays in preproduction & casting pushed it to September 2019. After the Muharat Shot on 23 September, filming went on for almost a month.