New Delhi:
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next film Love and Warstarring Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor and Vicky Kaushal, has just got a new release date. It is slated to hit the screens on March 20, 2026. Love and War was scheduled to be released in Christmas 2025. Love and War marks Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s first project with Vicky Kaushal. He has previously worked with Alia Bhatt in Gangubai Kathiawadi and with Ranbir Kapoor in the actor’s debut film Saawariya.
Love and War will be Vicky Kaushal’s second project with Ranbir Kapoor after the 2018 Sanjay Dutt biopic Sanju. He shared screen space with Alia Bhatt the same year in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi.
The film was announced in January of this year. “A lifelong dream of cinema has come true,” read the caption of the post shared by Vicky Kaushal, who is one of the main actors.
Ranbir Kapoor tied the knot with Alia Bhatt in April 2022. The star couple had been dating for over 5 years before tying the knot. Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor welcomed their first child, a baby girl on November 6 the same year. Their love story began on the sets of Ayan Mukerji Brahmastra.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest directorial project was the Netflix web series Heeramandi which featured Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sharmin Segal, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Taha Shah Badussha, Adhyayan and Shekhar Suman and Fardeen Khan. Heeramandi showcased the lives of courtesans against the backdrop of the Indian freedom struggle. The series is an epic saga of love, power, revenge and freedom.