India, May 23 -- Ever since Malayalam filmmaker-actor Basil Joseph's 2021 Tovino Thomas superhero film Minnal Murali became a rage across the country, there has been talk of him adapting the Mukesh Khanna-led 90s TV show Shaktimaan to the silver screen. After Ranveer Singh's name was rumoured to be attached to the project, there was recently speculation that Basil pitched the script to Allu Arjun. Here's some clarity.

On Club FM 94.3, director Arun Anirudhan, who helmed Tovino and Basil's recent release Athiradi, spoke about working on Shaktimaan with the filmmaker-actor. "Paulson (Skaria) and I were writing the screenplay for Basil's next directorial. Unfortunately, it did not go on floors. It was supposed to be a massive film, Shaktima...