MUMBAI: For the first time in his life, Amitabh Bachchan will be seen in a regional film. He will join Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Ganesh Venkatraman in Kandahar, a movie directed by Major Ravi. 

Produced by Pranavam International at a cost of Rs 420 million, the film is inspired by the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in 1999. It was hijacked while on its way from Kathmandu to New Delhi on Christmas eve by five Pakistani militants and was forced to land in three different airports - Amritsar, Lahore, and Dubai - before spending a week on the tarmac in Kandahar with 186 hostages on board.

Khandahar will be simultaneously made in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi.

The film will be shot in Delhi, Kerala and Nepal. The shooting is currently on in Ooty.