MUMBAI: Army officer-turned-filmmaker Major Ravi‘s forthcoming film Kandahar will release on 9 December.

Max Labs is planning to release the film in over 100 screens in Kerala.

Kandahar is Amitabh Bachchan‘s first Malayalam movie. It also marks the coming together of the Bollywood star and Mohanlal after Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag. 

A trilingual made in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, the film revolves around the hijack of the IC-814 flight that happened a few years ago.

The film has completed its entire shoot in Ooty, Dehradun, Mumbai and Pune in a record 28 days.

The story of the film centers on Ganesh Venkataraman who plays Bachhan‘s son and an angry young commando whose life undergoes a change when he meets Major Mahadevan, played by Mohanlal. The film also marks the debut of Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi.