Kartik Aryan and Kiara Advani, who are the most promising actors of Bollywood in present times, are set to return with another project Styaprem Ki Katha soon. Touted-to-be a romantic drama, the film is a beautiful love story of the characters played by both the lead actors.
The duo was seen in their most-recently released psychological thriller film Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, which was directed by Anees Bazmee and is the sequel of Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja starrer Bhool Bhulaiyaa.
Satyaprem Ki Katha is the second collaboration between the actor-duo after BB2 which broke many records at the box-office and emerged as the Second highest grossing Hindi film of 2022 grossing Rs. 266.88 crore, following Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files which is the highest grossing hindi film of 2022 so far and earned Rs 340.92 crore.
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Satyaprem Ki Katha Release Date
After Bhool Bhoolaiyaa 2 success, Kartik-Kiara to romance in a musical love story called Satyaprem Ki Katha and the theatrical date has been locked for this ‘29th June 2023‘, shoot starts on 3rd Sep 2022:
KARTIK AARYAN – KIARA ADVANI: 'SATYA PREM KI KATHA' STARTS TODAY… #SatyaPremKiKatha – starring #KartikAaryan and #KiaraAdvani – begins shoot today… Directed by #SameerVidwans… Produced by #SajidNadiadwala and #NamahPictures… 29 June 2023 release. pic.twitter.com/sMuVQQ3eRr
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) September 3, 2022
New Title Announced on Kiara’s Birthday
The film was announced in June last year titled Satyanarayan Ki Katha. However, a few days after the announcement, the makers decided to change it to avoid hurting religious sentiments, as Satyanarayan is the another name of Hindu God Vishnu.
The initial titled witness outrage on social media. Also, in Madhya Pradesh, a Hindu organisation “Sanskriti Bachao Manch”, submitted a memorandum to register a criminal against its producer.
On July 31, 2022, the day on which the film’s lead Kiara Advani celebrated her 30th day, the marks announced the new title of the film as “Satyaprem Ki Katha”. Actor Kartik Aryan wished her Happy birthday by sharing a motion poster featuring him along with his co-star Kiara. A whistling sound can also be heard in the background.
Kartik posted the motion poster with caption “Happy Birthday Katha”, have a look:
Happy Birthday Katha ❤️#SatyapremKiKatha @advani_kiara @TheAaryanKartik #SajidNadiadwala @sameervidwans @WardaNadiadwala @namahpictures pic.twitter.com/7VVnK3FhJI
— Nadiadwala Grandson (@NGEMovies) July 31, 2022
Satyaprem Ki Katha Makers
The film is being backed by Bollywood filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala’s Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, a production house known for producing acclaimed films such as Heropanti, Hey Babyy, 2 States, Tamasha, Super 30, Highway and Housefull franchise.
The most recent films that the production house produced is Akshay Kumar starrer Bachchan Pandey and Tiger Shroff starrer Heropanti 2. Actor Salman Khan’s highly-talked about film Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali is also being produced by Sajid Nadiadwala’s NGE.
Satyaprem Ki Katha is being directed by Sameer Vidwans, the filmmaker who helmed National Award-winning 2019 Marathi biographical drama film Anandi Gopal. The upcoming film marks his Bollywood directorial debut.