Right now the 'Padmavat' star, Shahid Kapoor is shooting for his upcoming movie Batti Gul Meter Chalu. The movie is being directed by Shree Narayan Singh and includes Shraddha Kapoor and Yami Gautam in lead roles. After the wrap up of the movie, Shahid is scheduled to start shooting for Raja Krishnan Menon's upcoming movie. 

According to the reports in Pinkvilla, Shahid will be set to play the character os a boxer in the movie. He is doing a sports-based film with Raja Krishnan. Sources say that Shahid wanted to explore that space for quite some time. He plays a boxer who emerges victorious against all odds in his life.
 
Further sources say that Shahid needs to have a remarkable physique to play the character convincingly. And he also has to learn the techniques of boxing. Someone had proposed Shahid with the story. He liked it and since he was already discussing collaborating with Raja, Sasha asked the filmmaker if he would want to work on it. And the latter started developing the script further.

Earlier the sources said that Shahid and Raja have been planning to work together for a while now. They had met after the release of Udta Punjab back in June 2016. And after that stayed in touch and were looking for a project to collaborate on. Both agreed on a script that Raja had been working on.
 
Confirming the news, director Raja Krishna said, "Yes Shahid and I are very keen to do our next film together. We have been working on an idea that we are both excited about and it will be a film based on a true story."

Meanwhile, Shahid was recently snapped outside Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's office. As per the reports both the actor and director met to discuss the idea of doing Mehra's upcoming movie on Kabaddi together. He is also in talks to play the lead in the remake of Woh Kaun Thi.