If all goes well, ‘Sooryavanshi‘ will release on Friday, April 30. There have been speculative reports since yesterday that this Akshay Kumar-starrer will hit theatres on the said date and now a source has confirmed that barring the recent upheaval of COVID, nothing else can change Reliance Entertainment‘s decision. “They have waited long enough, of course, they didn’t see this current wave coming in Maharashtra. But how long can they further wait?”

Adds the source, “They now believe that if the crowd can come in for ‘Wonder Woman’ and “Master’, why not for ‘Sooryavanshi’?” So, tomorrow the ‘Sooryavanshi’ teaser, being released on Rohit Shetty’s birthday is most likely to carry the date in question as well.”

The dispute between the theatre owners and Reliance Entertainment is not yet settled wherein the corporate was demanding 65 per cent minimum on the sale of tickets in the first week, followed by 60 and 55 in the 2nd and 3rd week respectively. The theatre owners had thrown up their arms and expressed to Reliance that this would be unfair as they have profusely bled since the lockdown was imposed in March 2020 and hence this would only widen the hole in their pockets. Our source says, “That’s a process which is happening, the talks are still on. There will be some middle-of-the-road settlement.”

As per the original plan, ‘Sooryavanshi’ would have released on March 24, 2020. Think of it, the film has been delayed by more than a year.