Anurag Basu’s Life in a Metro sequel starring Rajkummar and Fatima gets titled Ludo. Deets inside

Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Basu is all set to treat his audience with the sequel of his 2007 hit film Life In A Metro. The director had already announced the star cast of the film and now the latest reports suggest that the film has also got its title. Starring a bunch of talented actors like Fatima Sana Shaikh, Rajkummar Rao, Abhishek Bachchan, Sanya Malhotra, Aditya Roy Kapur and Pankaj Tripathi, the film is set to hit the screens in January 2020. Going by the reports in Bollywood Hungama, the makers of Life In A Metro sequel have titled the film as Ludo.

The report claims that the film is tentatively titled Ludo and will release on January 24, 2020. The buzz around Life In A Metro sequel has been going on for a while now. While it was said that the filmmaker has roped in Abhishek Bachchan, Sanya Malhotra and Rajkummar Rao for the film, Basu rubbished the rumours and revealed that the film is not a sequel. He said, “It has multiple plots, but it is not a sequel to Life In A… Metro. The genre and story are totally different and fresh. We have yet to decide the title and will figure the release date only after we wrap up the film. It features Abhishek Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rajkummar Rao and Pankaj Tripathi in the lead.”

A while back Bollywood critic and Trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to his social media and announced, "Anurag Basu's next film to release on 24 Jan 2020... Stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rajkummar Rao, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra and Pankaj Tripathi... Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar, Anurag Basu, Tani Somarita Basu and Krishan Kumar."

On the related note, the original film starred Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen, Kangana Ranaut, Shilpa Shetty, Shiney Ahuja and Kay Kay Menon among others,. The film was about push and pull of living in cosmopolitan India.