Ajay Devgan has been consistently giving hits year-on-year. In 2018, he played the no-nonsense income tax officer in Raid. Most of his biggest hits have been with Rohit Shetty, including the Golmaal and Singham Series. In 2019 and 2020, Ajay Devgan has his hands full with an enviable line of films.
First up is Total Dhamaal, this is the third part of the seminal comedy Dhamaal in 2007, followed by its sequel Double Dhamaal in 2011. Total Dhamaal has Ajay Devgan, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Esha Gupta and Bomani Irani toplining the cast. Aamir Khan also has a speial appearance in the film. The film is co-produced by Ajay Devgan, Fox Star Studios, Pen India Limited and Mangal Murti Films. Indra Kumar will direct the third instalment, as he did the other two.
Releasing on March 15, 2019 is De De Pyaar De, a romantic comedy written and co-produced by Luv Ranjan. The movie is directed by debutante Akiv Ali. The movie co-stars Tabu and Rakul Preet Singh.
Ajay Devgan’s ambitious project ‘Taanaji- The Unsung Warrior’ based on the brave Maratha warrior, Tanaji Malusare will release on November 22, 2019. The movie is produced by Ajay Devgan FF Films and T-Series. The movie has an enviable cast which includes Ajay Devgan in the title role, Kajol as Tanaji’s wife, Saif Ail Khan as Udhyaban Rathod, Sunil Shetty as Mirza Jai Singh, and Salman Khan as Shivaji Maharaj. The movie is directed by Om Raut, who directed the highly acclaimed ‘Lokmanya’ the Marathi movie in 2015.
In the year 2020, Ajay Devgan will play the role of the unsung football hero, coach Syed Abdul Rahim. He had led the Indian team to the semi-finals of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Football tournament making India the first ever Asian country to achieve this place. He had also coached the Indian Football Team at the Jakarta Asian Games in 1962, where India went on to win Gold. The movie is produced by Boney Kapoor, Zee Studios, Joy Sengupta and Akash Chawla. The director is Amit Sharma, of Badhai Ho fame.
Ajay Devgan is also going to be a part of another Luv Ranjan-directed film for the year 2020. Another ambitious project for 2020 is Chanakya, directed by Neeraj Pandey. The biopic on one of India’s greatest minds, philosopher, writer and thinker is going to be played by Ajay Devgan in the lead role. The filmi is produced by Reliance Entertainment.
