The Haryanvi film industry which has been on its death bed since the 80s is getting a new lease of life with upcoming multi-crore projects being made with artistic and technical support from Bollywood. Haryanvi film buffs, who have been waiting for a entertainer on the lines of the 1984 cult hit Chandrawal , are now looking forward to upcoming projects like Muthbed: Planned Encounter. The film produced by Sanjay Sharma and directed by Suraj Bhardwaj is being filmed at different locations in the interiors of Haryana. The film will be a milestone for Haryanvi cinema. The fight scenes will be filmed by Titu Singh, an associate of renowned fight director Veeru Devgn, who has worked on Rajneeti and Ravan, Sharma told PTI. The film, likely to hit screens in the month of September this year, also has a star cast from Bollywood. While Mukesh Tewari, who has done films with stars like Ajay Devgn will play the male protagonist, Poonam Jhaveri who worked with Nana Patekar in Aanch will play his love interest. It will be the first film in Haryanvi dialect which will have technical support of Bollywood. We have experienced technicians like the make up artist, cinematographer, fight master and art director, Sharma said.
  The films director Suraj Bhardwaj said that Haryanvi films had died out because they stopped connecting to the Haryanvi people and their lives. The movie is basically about todays Haryanvi youth who are led astray by political vested interests. Its an emotional story full of action, shot in the interiors of Haryana, said Bhardwaj. The movie is about a youth who gets implicated in a false rape case and after his release from jail he is left with no other choice but to pick up weapons. Unprecedented success of Chandrawal had created wide spread temptation among investors to produce Haryanvi films in order to make fast money during the 80s.  But these movies failed to create box-office magic and the investors also gradually left the industry.

- PTI