Jackie Shroff to play Salman Khan’s FATHER; Priyanka Chopra to play Salman’s wife in BHARAT! EXCLUSIVE!

Following eight years after the fact, Jackie Shroff and Salman Khan will meet up in Ali Abbas Zafar's Bharat. The last time both were seen together was in Veer: An Epic Love Story Of A Warrior (2010). In any case, not at all like their last film, where they conflicted with each other, in Bharat, Jackie will play Salman's dad and Priyanka Chopra who has been marked to play the female lead will play Salman's significant other. Like Salman, as they wind up more established in the film, she too will don five unique looks in the motion picture with the assistance of prosthetics.

Says an exchange source, "The part of Salman's dad may not be a major one but rather it's significant to the film and shapes Salman's character and who he turns out to be later. It was Salman who needed Jackie to assume this intense part. It begins in 1947 when the Partition happens and a huge number of families are isolated and closes in 2000. The motion picture is the trip of a nation and furthermore a man, both of whom pass by the name of Bharat. Tribute To My Father starts with the Hungnam Evacuation in 1950 when numerous families got isolated in Korea and the dad tells his child Yoon Deok-soo, 'On the off chance that I don't come you are the leader of the family that implies whatever happens you put the family first. Presently, that you are the leader of the family, take care of them well.' Jackie plays Salman's dad and his words stay with the young man (Salman) appropriate till the end. They get isolated amid the Partition in Bharat however his dad's words and want to rejoin with him stays ideal till the end."

While the film is an official adjustment of the South Korean dramatization film, Ode to My Father (2014), Bharat has been adjusted to Indian groups of onlookers with specific changes. In any case, the source includes, "Similar to Ode To My Father, which traverses over numerous years, Bharat's story will traverse over a time of 50 years and that is the reason we will see Salman Khan donning five distinct looks in the film – as a young man who witnesses the Partition to the present years when he is an old man. As the firstborn, Bharat turns into his family's provider from an early age, doing all way of odd occupations to help the family. The film starts from a cutting edge elderly couple (Salman and Priyanka) thinking back about their past and how they began to look all starry eyed at and got hitched. So we will get the opportunity to see an extremely youthful Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan and old ones as well. There are flashbacks to different periods of time. Like Ode To My Father which portrayed Korean history from the 1950s till the ongoing circumstances, Bharat too will feature different vital occasions of Indian history."

Ali Abbas Zafar's Bharat started shoot on Sunday at Mumbai's Filmistan Studios looking like a carnival tent with Disha Patani and Salman Khan. The film will have Salman playing a trick motorcyclist while Disha will be a trapeze artiste. Delivered by Atul Agnihotri, Bharat will be taped in Abu Dhabi, Spain, Malta, Punjab and Delhi.