Ahaan Panday wraps up 2-month UK schedule of his gangster drama with Ali Abbas Zafar

This is Ahaan Panday’s second movie with Yash Raj Films that launched him with ‘Saiyaara’

If July 2025 saw Ahaan Panday break out in Bollywood with the blockbuster Saiyaara, this July saw the young actor almost completing his second film. mid-day has learnt that last week, director Ali Abbas Zafar called it a wrap on the 60-day United Kingdom schedule of the yet-untitled action drama. In the last leg, the unit filmed a romantic song and some dramatic scenes with Panday and leading lady Sharvari in Birmingham.

Sharvari

Also starring Bobby Deol, Jimmy Shergill, and Aaishvary Thackeray, the film sees Panday portray a gangster. A source said, "In the past few weeks, they shot three songs. One was a solo track of Ahaan shot at Town Hall in Birmingham. It's a festive number that sees the lead actor dancing alongside young girls doing the hula hoop. Two romantic songs with Ahaan and Sharvari were also filmed at different locations, including Birmingham, Coventry University, Penrith, and Carlisle. Vijay Ganguly choreographed all three songs."

(From left) Ali Abbas Zafar with Ahaan Panday. Pics/Instagram, Yogen Shah

The romantic action drama will trace how Panday's character goes from a young boy to a dreaded gangster. The source added, "Aaishvary plays the antagonist, while Bobby is Ahaan's mentor who takes him under his wing when he is young."