Director Ayan Mukerji is placing the pedal to the metallic for Yash Raj Movies’ “Struggle 2,” the extremely anticipated follow-up that’s shaping as much as be Bollywood’s most awaited cinematic occasion of 2025.

Produced by Aditya Chopra, the motion extravaganza marks the sixth installment within the blockbuster-laden YRF spy universe. The franchise unites Hrithik Roshan and NTR (the “RRR” actor previously referred to as NTR Jr) on display screen for the primary time with “Struggle 2.”

Mukerji reveals that his major focus centered on crafting a storyline worthy of pitting two titans of Indian cinema in opposition to one another: Hrithik Roshan and NTR. The director admits the inventive course of required appreciable time and a focus to element.

“It’s a big accountability to take ahead a massively beloved franchise like ‘Struggle’ and go away your personal mark on it,” Mukerji explains. “I noticed directing ‘Struggle 2’ as a relishing alternative to provide a hat-tip to the primary movie. You possibly can’t have enjoyable in any other case whereas approaching board such an enormous blockbuster franchise.”

The filmmaker emphasizes the fragile steadiness required when helming such a high-profile venture. “One has to take what has been set after which make the followers of the movie and the followers of those gigantic superstars of our nation go on a journey that’s new, that hopefully leaves them hungry for extra. As a director, I’ve to be sincere, I immersed myself into delivering this sense.”

Mukerji’s meticulous strategy prolonged to each side of manufacturing, with specific emphasis on the movie’s motion sequences and central battle. “The whole lot about ‘Struggle 2’ has been crafted with a number of planning to raise the theatrical expertise of the viewers. The utmost time spent was on the motion set items and crafting the storyline and the battle which was wanted to mount the face-off between Hrithik Roshan and NTR.”

The director positions “Struggle 2” as a celebration of Indian cinema’s scope and star energy, bringing collectively two of the trade’s largest names for what guarantees to be an explosive theatrical expertise. “‘Struggle 2’ is actually the approaching collectively of Indian cinema with these two big actors becoming a member of forces,” Mukerji notes. “We had been conscious of the expectations this pairing would set within the minds of their followers and the viewers and each second was spent considering of find out how to give them an expertise of a lifetime once they sit within the theatres.”

Created by Chopra, the spy universe kicked off with the “Tiger” franchise, starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, starting with “Ek Tha Tiger” (2012) and “Tiger Zinda Hai” (2017), and continued with “Struggle” (2019), starring Roshan and Tiger Shroff. These had been adopted by “Pathaan,” starring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham, and “Tiger 3,” each in 2023. “Alpha,” starring Alia Bhatt and Sharvari, the primary female-led movie within the universe is due after “Struggle 2,” adopted by “Tiger vs Pathaan,” that includes each Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.

Within the “Tiger” franchise, Salman Khan performs Avinash Singh Rathore, AKA Tiger, who belongs to Indian intelligence company RAW and Kaif performs Zoya Humaini from Pakistan’s ISI. In “Struggle,” Roshan is rogue RAW agent Kabir Dhaliwal and Shroff his protégé Khalid Rahmani. In “Pathaan,” Shah Rukh Khan performs exiled RAW agent Pathaan and Padukone ISI agent Rubina Mohsin.

Tiger has an prolonged cameo in “Pathaan” and the movie additionally options Colonel Sunil Luthra (Ashutosh Rana), who first appeared in “Struggle” and is in “Tiger 3” as properly. The character Pathaan has a cameo in “Tiger 2” as does Kabir Dhaliwal.

“Struggle 2” is scheduled to hit theaters worldwide on August 14, throughout the Indian Independence Day vacation body, and will likely be out there within the Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu languages, catering to the pan-Indian attraction of its star forged.