Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period-drama 'Padmavati' fell in trouble earlier this year, when members of the Rajput group Karni Sena stormed the set at Jaipur's Jaigarh Fort, and damaged equipment and roughed up the director. The incident brought filming to an abrupt halt.
Bhansali soon moved to Kolhapur with a group of character artistes to shoot battle sequences on the Mhasai Pathar plateau, but shooting once again was stalled when several boxes containing costumes and jewellery were set on fire, on March 15. This time the director completed the shoot before he returned to Mumbai. Bhansali last week flagged off yet another schedule in Mumbai's Film City with actor Shahid Kappoor who plays Rani Padmavati's husband Maharaja Rawal Ratan Singh.
The actor who was in Amritsar recently with wife Mira and daughter Misha, returned earlier this week and got into work straightaway. "Deepika Padukone who plays Rani Padmavati is expected to join him soon." Meanwhile, CEO of SLB Films, Shobha Sant has admitted to beefing up security. "After the Kolhapur incident, we wanted to be extra careful," she said.
