Deepika Padukone to join Ranveer Singh in ‘Cirkus’

The off-screen lovebirds will be uniting onscreen for the fifth time

Bollywood Hungama has dished out some all exclusive information on Rohit Shetty’s Cirkus, which features Ranveer Singh and Varun Sharma in a double role with Pooja Hegde and Jacqueline Fernandez as the female leads. The film is based on Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors but set in the 1960s.The shooting of the film is going on in full swing in Mumbai and the makers are expected to wrap up by next month.

But now, it has been announced that Singh’s wife, Deepika Padukone has joined the Cirkus gang too! “Cirkus has just got bigger with the presence of Deepika Padukone. She has a special dance number in the film, alongside some conversational scenes. Her sequences are sure to bring the house down with laughter,” a source told the publication.

This would be Singh and Padukone’s second collaboration after their 2019 wedding, the first being ‘83. Interestingly, it’s a cameo in both films for the latter.

Padukone has shot for the film over the last weekend – Friday, Saturday and Sunday. She has now moved on to the Shah Rukh Khan film Pathan at Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai and will be filming for a groovy dance number with him this week before moving on to some action sequences alongside SRK, Salman Khan and John Abraham. She recently wrapped up shooting for Shakun Batra's next too, produced by Karan Johar.