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Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, who has recently collaborated with actor Ali Fazal for the spy thriller ‘Khufiya’, shared how he was fascinated by the latter’s previous performances, saying he was looking for an opportunity to work with him.

Ali is best known for his role of Guddu Pandit in the action crime thriller web series ‘Mirzapur’. Apart from Ali, it also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Shweta Tripathi Shamra, Divyenndu, Vikrant Massey, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rasika Dugal, Harshita Gaur and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in pivotal roles.

The actor is also known for his work in projects like ‘3 Idiots’, ‘Fukrey’, ‘Sonali Cable’, ‘Milan Talkies’, amongst many others.

In the Vishal Bhardwaj directorial ‘Khufiya’, Ali plays the character of Ravi Mohan.

Talking about casting Ali in the film, the National Film Award-winning director told Ians: “I have been seeing him for such a long time. Everyone has seen his work in ‘Mirzapur’. Entire country loved his performance.

Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, who has recently collaborated with actor Ali Fazal for the spy thriller ‘Khufiya’, shared how he was fascinated by the latter’s previous performances, saying he was looking for an opportunity to work with him.

Ali is best known for his role of Guddu Pandit in the action crime thriller web series ‘Mirzapur’. Apart from Ali, it also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Shweta Tripathi Shamra, Divyenndu, Vikrant Massey, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rasika Dugal, Harshita Gaur and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in pivotal roles.

The actor is also known for his work in projects like ‘3 Idiots’, ‘Fukrey’, ‘Sonali Cable’, ‘Milan Talkies’, amongst many others.

In the Vishal Bhardwaj directorial ‘Khufiya’, Ali plays the character of Ravi Mohan.

Talking about casting Ali in the film, the National Film Award-winning director told Ians: “I have been seeing him for such a long time. Everyone has seen his work in ‘Mirzapur’. Entire country loved his performance.

Mumbai, June 13 (Ians) The upcoming action-thriller film ‘Kandahar’ which stars Gerard Butler and Ali Fazal is set to release on Ott platform Prime Video on June 16.

The film is directed by Ric Roman Waugh and features Navid Negahban, Bahador Foladi, Nina Toussaint-White, Vassilis Koukalani, Mark Arnold, Corey Johnson, and Abdullah Alnaji in main roles.

The film follows the story of an undercover CIA operative, Tom Harris (Gerard Butler), taking viewers on an adrenaline-fueled journey deep into a hostile territory in Afghanistan.

When an intelligence leak exposes his identity and mission, he must navigate through the perilous obstacles alongside his Afghan translator Mo (Navid Negahban), to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding the elite special forces unit tasked with hunting them down.

Ali Fazal plays the role of Kahil in the movie who goes up against Tom Harris in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The movie draws...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the new feature “Kandahar,” with Gerard Butler teaming up for a third time with action/thriller director Ric Roman Waugh. In theaters on May 26th.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Tom Harris (Gerard Butler), is undercover for the Agency, stuck deep within hostile territory during the America’s war in Afghanistan. When an intelligence leak exposes his identity and mission, he must fight his way out. At his side is his translator (Navid Negahban), and together they must reach an extraction point in the Afghan city of Kandahar, all while avoiding the elite special forces unit tasked with hunting them down.

Click Here for an interview with director Ric Roman Waugh of “Kandahar” by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com.

”Kandahar” is in theaters on May 26th. Featuring Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Bahador Foladi and Rebecca Calder. Written by Mitchell Lafortune. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh.

Director Ric Roman Waugh (National Champions) is no stranger to action movies starring Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen). Kandahar is the duo’s third film together, and they have continued making serviceable action flicks for a little over half a decade now. Butler seems to have settled into his role as an action movie star, whether it's in theaters or on demand. The result is a career that has perhaps not lived up to the promise of 300 but has certainly stayed relevant longer than the average career that took off in 2007. Kandahar's script lives in a morally gray area, but the filmmaking is proficient enough to keep audiences engaged.

Undercover CIA agent Tom Harris (Butler) is tasked with infiltrating and killing targets in the Middle East. His current assignment finds him posing as a telecommunications engineer tasked with upgrading the internet capabilities in Afghanistan. The first part of his mission...

Plot: A CIA contractor (Gerard Butler) who just sabotaged an Iranian Nuclear Power Plant finds his cover blown by a whistleblower journalist. On the run, he finds himself being hunted, along with his Afghan interpreter (Navid Negahban), through hostile territory by Iranian Intelligence, the Taliban and Pakistan intelligence.

Review: Many will compare Ric Roman Waugh’s Kandahar with Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant. After all, both are about Americans being hunted in Afghanistan along with their interpreters, but if you ignore how similar the premises may be, they’re actually quite different. Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant was a (very good) war film, while Kandahar is more of a straightforward action flick. It’s a very tight little thriller offering further evidence that Gerard Butler makes the best mid-level action movies in the business, especially when he works with Ric Roman Waugh, arguably his best director.

In Kandahar, Butler plays a familiar role – the burnt-out,...

Kandahar reunites is director Rick Roman Waugh with Gerard Butler, after they made Angel Has Fallen and Greenland together. This time they tackle the spy thriller genre, with cast that includes Travis Fimmel, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, and Bahador Foladi. With the script penned by Mitchell Lafortune, these particular types of stories often suffer from narrative sameness: westerner travels to the Middle East, things go boom, westerner saves the day, the end. This follows a predictable path.

The story begins in Iran with Tom Harris (Butler) with his partner Oliver (Tom Rhys Harries) working on wiring at a nuclear plant center. This cover is just to deposit a bomb. The two are surrounded by guards who become suspicious of their intentions, but Harris de-escalates the situation, and they manage to get away. His partner is worried that the army forces are onto them being CIA spies. Things are fine until...

Right out of the gate, Ric Roman Waugh’s Kandahar sets up a potentially cataclysmic case of American foreign intervention. The film opens with C.I.A. operative Tom Harris (Gerard Butler) destroying a clandestine Iranian nuclear facility with minimal difficulty, and despite his thin cover as an ISP technician. This is the kind of action that could kick off a hot war, but instead things pivot quickly into a more restrained manhunt as the Revolutionary Guards quickly figure out Tom’s true identity and launch a small unit to capture the man as he works a different mission in Afghanistan. With his cover blown, Tom must cross a hostile nation to an evacuation point, avoiding Afghan and Iranian pursuers in equal fashion.

This is the third collaboration between Butler and Waugh, but the slight whimsicality of Angel Has Fallen is nowhere to be found in this more downbeat survival thriller. Yet...

Chicago – Ric Roman Waugh is a man of action, as this stuntman-turned-director is approaching his tenth film, several of which involving his actor partner Gerard Butler. The duo takes on the Afghanistan War from the CIA undercover operative angle with the new film “Kandahar,” opening in theaters on May 26th.

Tom Harris (Gerard Butler), is undercover for the Agency, stuck deep within hostile territory during the America’s war in Afghanistan. When an intelligence leak exposes his identity and mission, he must fight his way out. At his side is his translator (Navid Negahban), and together they must reach an extraction point in the Afghan city of Kandahar, all while avoiding the elite special forces unit tasked with hunting them down.

Director Ric Roman Waugh with Gerard Butler on the Set of ‘Kandahar’

Photo credit: Open Road Films

Ric Roman Waugh is a director, writer, producer, actor and former stuntman.

Gerard Butler is a man racing to get out of a hostile country in Kandahar. The film centers on Butler's Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative whose cover is blown in the midst of a mission and must fight his way through hostile territory in Afghanistan along with his translator to an extraction point in the eponymous city.

Alongside Butler, the cast for Kandahar includes Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Travis Fimmel, Elnaaz Norouzi, Bahador Foladi, and Najia Khaan. The film, which reunites Butler with Angel Has Fallen and Greenland director Ric Roman Waugh, is a pulse-pounding thriller that also takes the time to explore the intricacies of war and its cultural effects.

Related: Every Gerard Butler Action Movie, Ranked Worst To Best (Including Plane)

Ahead of the film's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with director Ric Roman Waugh to discuss Kandahar, reuniting with Butler for the third time, bringing...

Mumbai, April 5 (Ians) Iranian-German model and actress Elnaaz Norouzi shared her experience working with Scottish actor and film producer Gerard Butler in the international project ‘Kandahar’. Gerard plays Tom Harris, a CIA operative stuck in Afghanistan during a mission.

Elnaaz said: “Working with Gerard was magical not only as a producer, but also as co-star, he is just so much fun and super nice on top of it. ‘Kandahar’ is an experience I will never forget.”

Elnaaz is known for her work in Pakistani movie ‘Maan Jao Naa’, and Hindi film ‘Hello Charlie’. She was also seen with Guru Randhawa in the music video ‘Made In India’ and seen in the web series ‘Sacred Games’. The actress further shared her liking for Gerard’s works which includes ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’, ‘Tale of the Mummy’, ‘Timeline’, among others and said: “:I remember watching Gerard’s movies and I used to have...

A new trailer for Gerard Butler's Kandahar features the star fighting his way across an Afghan desert in an epic race to survive. Butler is best known for starring in the likes of 300 and the popular Has Fallen action trilogy, most recently appearing in Plane. Kandahar, from director Ric Roman Waugh, sees the actor take on the role of CIA operative Tom Harris, who attempts to escape Afghanistan with his interpreter after their cover is blown.

Open Road Films has now released the first trailer for Kandahar, providing a new look at Butler's next action-packed role after Plane.

The trailer sees Butler's character sabotage Iran's nuclear weapons program before his covert mission is exposed in a crippling intelligence leak. With his interpreter, played by Navid Negahban, Tom embarks on a dangerous mission across hostile territory in order to reach an extraction point in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The movie also stars Bahador Foladi,...

Julia Ragnarsson and Erik Enge (“Tiger”) are the two leading stars of “End of Summer,” a psychological thriller series based Anders de la Motte’s bestselling Swedish novel of the same name. The show has been ordered by Viaplay and is being produced by Harmonica Films with Sf Studios and Film i Skåne co-producing.

Björn Carlström (“The Hunters”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Hamilton”) are the head writers on the series which shot in Skåne in the southern part of Sweden and will premiere in the fall on Viaplay.

The cast also includes Simon J Berger (“Exit”), Torkel Petersson (“A Swedish Defence”), Per Ragnar (“Let the Right One In”), Linus James Nilsson, Anna Granath, Emelie Garbers, Henrik Norlén, Bahador Foladi, Vilhelm Blomgren and Lars Schilken.

The six-episode series opens on a summer evening in 1984 when a 5-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors,...

Exclusive: Nina Toussaint-White (Bodyguard) and Bahador Foladi (The Machinery) have joined the cast of Gerard Butler action movie Kandahar, which is currently filming in Saudi Arabia.

Butler stars as Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative, stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan. He must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding the elite special forces tasked with hunting them down.

Produced by John Wick outfit Thunder Road Films and Capstone, Kandahar reunites Butler with his Greenland and Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh. Also starring are Ali Fazal and Navid Negahban.

Brit actress Toussaint-White is known for starring in Amazon sci-fi The Feed and for roles in BBC hit Bodyguard, The Sister for ITV/Hulu and GameFace for Hulu. She is currently starring in Channel 5 thriller Witness No. 3.

Stage and screen actor Foladi has just wrapped on the...