Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan all praise for the first-look poster of R Balki's next ‘Chup’

As promised the first-look poster of R Balki''s upcoming film ‘Chup’ was dropped online on Sunday to pay homage to legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt on his death anniversary. The psychological thriller, starring Sunny Deol, Pooja Bhatt, Dulquer Salmaan and Shreya Dhanwanthary in the lead, has been wrapped in massive secrecy ever since it was announced in August this year.

As soon as the motion poster was released, Akshay Kumar took to his Twitter handle to heap praise for the intriguing poster. He wrote, “After watching this, one cannot stay #Chup! I have so many questions, what an intriguing poster! Eagerly looking forward to it, #RBalki.”

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, too, shared the motion poster of ‘Chup’ on his social media handles showing his support to R Balki.
R Balki who has previously delivered critically acclaimed films such as ‘Cheeni Kum’, ‘Paa’, ‘Ki & Ka’ and ‘Padman’, has also revealed that the filming is almost done and this film will be an ode to Guru Dutt.

While Balki, Raja Sen and Rishi Virmani have co-written the screenplay and dialogues of ‘Chup’, music is being composed by Amit Trivedi and Vishal Sinha is the DOP. Incidentally, this film marks the return of Sunny Deol after his 2019 film ‘Blank’.

Guru Dutt, the master filmmaker is known for making Bollywood cult classics like ‘Pyaasa’, ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’, ‘Chaudhvin Ka Chand’ and ‘Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam’ to name a few. The legendary filmmaker breathed his last on October 10, 1964 at the age of only 39.