Producer Sunir Kheterpal was supposed to announce the director for Deepika Padukone and Rishi Kapoor starrer The Intern remake this month. While the announcement plan has now been put on hold due to the nationwide lockdown, the producer hasn't stopped the development of his other projects. Peepingmoon.com has exclusively learned that Kheterpal is making a big-scale heist thriller that is expected to roll later this year or early 2021. 

The project has been titled The Great Indian Robbery and will be about a plan to stop India's partition. The story is said to be based on a historical fact but has been fictionalized to make it a larger-than-life, spectacle watch. Sources close to the development have revealed that Kheterpal is in-house developing this film for the last two years and recently locked the script. He is currently finalizing the director and will approach an A-list actor once the lockdown is eased out. 

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The Great Indian Robbery has been billed as one of the biggest event films coming out from Kheterpal's banner, Azure Entertainment. The production company is also working on a big-budget war drama called Operation Khukri in collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment. That film is based on the Indian Armed Force's most successful mission on the foreign soul and is currently at the scripting stage. 

Known for producing films like Rocky Handsome, Badla, Kesari and The Body, Azure Entertainment also has as many as six foreign movie adaptations in developments. The company has a two-film adaptation deal with Warner Bros. (The Intern and Infernal Affairs) and is also working with Lionsgate India to adapt Mexican comedy, Instructions Not Included and South Korean action-thriller, The Terror Live. It also has partnered with Neeraj Pandey and Reliance Entertainment on the Hindi adaptation of Bad Genius which will be directed by Veerey Di Wedding fame Shashanka Ghosh.