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Pathaan is an upcoming 2023 Indian Hindi-language spy film written and directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films. Set in YRF's Spy universe, the film stars Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles with John Abraham playing the antagonist. It is the fourth installment in the Spy Universe.

The film is scheduled to release on 25 January 2023, coinciding with Republic Day.

Cast

 * Shah Rukh Khan as Feroze Pathaan, a Research and Analysis Wing agent
 * John Abraham as Rocky Shah, a freelance terrorist who works for the Russian mafia
 * Deepika Padukone as Mehek, a fellow Research and Analysis Wing agent
 * Dimple Kapadia as Shanti, the head of the Research and Analysis Wing department
 * Ashutosh Rana as Colonel Sunil Luthra
 * Shaji Chaudhary
 * Gautam Rode

Extended cameo appearances

 * Salman Khan as Avinash "Tiger" Singh Rathore
 * Hrithik Roshan as Major Kabir Dhaliwal

Production
Yash Raj Films, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham officially announced Pathaan on 2 March 2022 at their social media accounts, revealing the release date to be 25 January 2023 with a first look teaser. However, Various cast and crew of the film including Salman Khan and Vishal Dadlani have unofficially announced the film at various occasions before. Dadlani unofficially announced the film on his Twitter account. He wrote in the tweet, "No number from the past matters, no number in the future is too big. The whole world is waiting to watch Shahrukh. More importantly, we're all working towards a kickass film with great songs."

According to Box Office Worldwide, the budget of the film is ₹170 crore. The Free Press Journal reported that Shah Rukh Khan is paid ₹1 billion for the film and Zoom reported that Deepika Padukone is paid ₹150 million and John Abraham is paid ₹200 million for the film. Salman Khan & Hrithik Roshan who is having a cameo appearance in the film, didn't take any charge.

Casting
Khan was cast in the film on September 2020. Padukone joined the filming on 23 November 2020 and  Abraham joined the casting of the film in June 2021 during the shooting at Mumbai. Dimple Kapadia was cast in December 2020. Salman Khan was cast to make a cameo appearance on November 2020, reprising his role as Avinash from the Tiger franchise. Hrithik Roshan was also cast to make a cameo in January 2022, reprising his role as Kabir from director Siddharth Anand's previous film War.

Filming
Principal photography of the film began on 17 November 2020, in Mumbai. In January 2021, filming moved to Dubai. Some of the major action sequences including a long chase sequence were shot in the same schedule. On 12 April 2021, after some crew members of the film tested positive for COVID-19, further schedules of the film were postponed. The filming resumed on 25 June, 2021. Later, in July 2021, another schedule of the film began. A song was scheduled to be shot from 7 October 2021 in Mallorca and Cádiz but the schedule was postponed.

In February 2022, the production moved to Spain to shoot action sequences in which Khan, Padukone and Abraham took part in. Filming is set to take place in Mallorca, and Cádiz in south-western Spain.

Release
After filming for over 1.5 years, Pathaan is scheduled to release on 25 January 2023, coinciding with Republic day.