Mission Majnu: Rashmika Mandanna and Sidharth Malhotra start shooting in Lucknow

Sidharth Malhotra and Rashmika Mandanna

South actor Rashmika Mandanna has begun shooting for her Bollywood debut, Mission Majnu. Though she has featured in several Telugu films, including Dear Comrade (2019), alongside Vijay Deverakonda, Mandanna felt like a newcomer all over again. "There was nervousness and excitement," she says about being on a Hindi film set. Shantanu Baagchi's thriller, starring Sidharth Malhotra, is being shot in Lucknow.

Sharing her experience in a media interaction, Rashmika Mandanna stated, "I have been fortunate to receive so much love from audiences across languages. As an actor, it is always the story of the film that I connect with, and the language of the film is never a barrier for me. I am grateful to the makers for offering me Mission Majnu which is written beautifully, and I am super excited to be part of a team that has so much passion. We are all working together to make it even more amazing. I am super excited to start my journey in Hindi cinema and to reach out to newer audiences."

Inspired by real events set in the 1970s, Mission Majnu is a story of India's most courageous mission in the heart of Pakistan that forever changed the relationship between the two nations. Written by Parveez Shaikh, Aseem Arora, and Sumit Batheja the thriller stars Malhotra as a RAW agent who leads the mission.

This film marks two important firsts - it will be southern superstar Rashmika Mandanna's highly-anticipated Bollywood debut and the directorial debut of award-winning ad filmmaker, Shantanu Bagchi.