{"id":510398,"date":"2026-06-25T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510398\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:35:11","slug":"ajay-devgn-sets-action-comeback-with-chauhaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510398\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Devgn Sets Action Comeback With ‘Chauhaan’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTop Bollywood star Ajay Devgn<\/a> is set to headline \u201cChauhaan<\/a>,\u201d an action entertainer presented by Jio Studios<\/a> and produced in association with Colour Yellow, marking his debut collaboration with filmmaker Aanand L. Rai.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe title was unveiled Thursday on the birth anniversary of Devgn\u2019s late father, stunt choreographer and action director Veeru Devgan.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe announcement video features the classic song Amitabh Bachchan song \u201cJumma Chumma De De\u201d from \u201cHum\u201d (1991) in the backdrop. The preview opens with a tense dialogue tracking a costly military encounter. The sequence outlines the failure of conventional tactical measures, including tear gas, pellet guns, and water cannons, to handle localized resistance. The narrative shifts to a public address in Kashmir before building to the introduction of Devgn\u2019s character, the titular Chauhaan.<\/p>\n

\n\t The film is directed by Neeraj Yadav and produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Rai and Himanshu Sharma under Jio Studios and Colour Yellow Productions, with a theatrical release date set for Oct. 1, 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tDevgn, who has appeared in over 100 films across a career stretching more than three decades, first established himself as a leading action star with his 1991 debut \u201cPhool Aur Kaante,\u201d in which he was introduced standing astride two moving motorcycles. That picture was directed by his father, Veeru Devgan, who had built a reputation as one of Bollywood\u2019s most sought-after stunt choreographers before moving into direction. <\/p>\n

\n\tOver the following decades, Ajay Devgn went on to headline action franchise \u201cSingham\u201d and comedy franchise \u201cGolmaal,\u201d as well as thrillers such as \u201cDrishyam\u201d and its sequel, and won his third Indian National Film Award for Best Actor for his role in the period epic \u201cTanhaji\u201d (2020). Recent releases including the supernatural thriller \u201cShaitaan\u201d (2024) and action outing \u201cRaid 2\u201d (2025) were both box office successes, while his most recent releases \u2013 \u201cSon of Sardaar 2\u201d and \u201cDe De Pyaar De 2,\u201d both 2025 \u2013 saw him return to comedy.<\/p>\n

\n\tJio Studios, the content arm of Reliance Industries, has emerged as one of Indian cinema\u2019s most active financiers and is coming off the back of \u201cDhurandhar,\u201d Aditya Dhar\u2019s spy action thriller starring Ranveer Singh, both instalments of which are amongst the highest grossing films of Indian cinema. <\/p>\n

\n\tColour Yellow Productions, founded by Rai, has produced a range of critically and commercially successful titles including the \u201cTanu Weds Manu\u201d franchise and \u201cRaanjhanaa.\u201d The screenplay for \u201cChauhaan\u201d is by Himanshu Sharma, who has collaborated with Rai across much of his filmography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Bollywood star Ajay Devgn is set to headline \u201cChauhaan,\u201d an action entertainer presented by Jio Studios and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12413,234259,146,85,46,98160],"class_list":["post-510398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ajay-devgn","tag-chauhaan","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jio-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}