{"id":12749,"date":"2025-06-10T03:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/10\/rajkummar-rao-takes-center-stage-as-lead-and-co-producer-in-aditya-nimbalkars-thrilling-murder-mystery\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T03:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:19:01","slug":"rajkummar-rao-takes-center-stage-as-lead-and-co-producer-in-aditya-nimbalkars-thrilling-murder-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/10\/rajkummar-rao-takes-center-stage-as-lead-and-co-producer-in-aditya-nimbalkars-thrilling-murder-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajkummar Rao Takes Center Stage as Lead and Co-Producer in Aditya Nimbalkar&#8217;s Thrilling Murder Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rajkummar Rao Takes on New Dark Comedy Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rajkummar Rao is currently busy promoting his upcoming action-packed gangster film, <em>Maalik<\/em>. At the same time, he is gearing up for an exciting new project\u2014a dark comedy for Netflix that promises a unique twist on the murder mystery genre.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be directed by Aditya Nimbalkar, known for his gritty work in <em>Sector 36<\/em>. This untitled project will venture into lighter yet quirky territories, focusing on a murder with a comedic twist. Filming is set to begin this month in Mumbai, with locations including 1 Aerocity in Marol and Film City in Goregaon.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the production shared that the shooting schedule is planned for two months. Rao was so captivated by the script that he decided to join as a co-producer. This marks his second production venture following <em>Toaster<\/em>, another Netflix title that is expected to release later this year.<\/p>\n<p>As excitement builds around the biopic of former cricketer Sourav Ganguly, which also features Rao, he&#8217;s found the perfect opportunity to fit in this new dark comedy. The Ganguly project is still in its pre-production stages and will reunite Rao with filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane, with whom he previously collaborated on the 2016 film <em>Trapped<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Rao&#8217;s theatrical release, <em>Maalik<\/em>, is set to hit cinemas on July 11. Directed by Pulkit and produced by Kumar Taurani and Jay Shewakramani, Rao will play a gangster transforming into a powerful figure. He will be joined by a talented cast, including Bengali star Prosenjit Chatterjee, former Miss World Manushi Chhillar, and breakout talent Medha Sankhar from <em>12th Fail<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajkummar Rao Takes on New Dark Comedy Project Rajkummar Rao is currently busy promoting his upcoming action-packed gangster film, Maalik. At the same time, he is gearing up for an exciting new project\u2014a dark comedy for Netflix that promises a unique twist on the murder mystery genre. The film will be directed by Aditya Nimbalkar,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2813,1172,1173,514,1052,1053,2814],"class_list":["post-12749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bollywood","tag-aditya-nimbalkar","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-india","tag-news","tag-ott","tag-ott-platform","tag-rajkummar-rao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}