Welcome to the Jungle, starring Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon, Suniel Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Farida Jalal, Aftab, Johnny Lever, Disha Patani and others, is not on hold. On Sunday, August 25, director Ahmed Khan dismissed all the rumours and said the film is on schedule and 70 percent of the shooting has been completed. In fact, there were reports that the third installment of the multistarrer franchise, Welcome 3, has been on hold after several delays. Now, director Ahmed Khan has responded to the rumours. In a statement, he said, “There is no truth in these rumours. The shooting of the film is going on and we will be doing a marathon international schedule from October for which my technical team has already left for scouting.” The makers also shared a picture of the cast and crew from the sets, which clearly indicates that the film is coming. Work is underway on it.

Who is taking part in “Welcome to the Jungle”?

According to the makers, 70 percent of the shooting of Welcome to Jungle has been completed. The film also stars Johnny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Krishna Abhishek, Kiku Sharda, Daler Mehndi, Mika Singh, Mukesh Tiwari, Zakir Hussain, Yashpal Sharma, Sayaji Shinde, Jackie Shroff and Aftab Shivdasani. Initially, the release was scheduled for December 2024. This would have clashed with Aamir Khan’s Sitare Zameen Par. But now this film will release next year.

Why did Sanjay Dutt leave Welcome to the Jungle?

There were speculations that this film was shelved because the announcement video of the film had disappeared from the official YouTube channel of Jio Studio. Some said that this film will not be released now and some said that Jio has opted out of the film. Sanjay Dutt was also in this film. But Bollywood Hungama quoted a source as saying that he/she opted out of the film due to schedule issues. He/she had shot for 15 days. Now it remains to be seen whether this role will be used in the film or not.