{
  "id": 16601481,
  "title": "‘The Lunchbox’ Director Ritesh Batra Sets Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan & Mélanie Laurent For ‘Long Years Ago’; Filming Begins In Mumbai",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/the-lunchbox-director-ritesh-batra-sets-saif-ali-khan-vidya-balan",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-26T12:18:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/saif-ali-khan-vidya-balan-cast-in-long-years-ago-mumbai-1237172976/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "EXCLUSIVE: Bollywood icons Saif Ali Khan (Sacred Games) and Vidya Balan (Jailer 2) will star with Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds) in The Lunchbox filmmaker Ritesh Batra’s next film Long Years Ago, which is now underway in Mumbai. The comedy-drama heralds from Adeel Ahmed and writer-director Batra’s film and TV outfit Poetic License, and is being […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}