Fitoor, Abhishek Kapoor's desi adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic Great Expectations, has not been shelved and very soon the film be on the sets.

"We're shooting in Delhi, London and across Kashmir. The weather plays a central role in the plot so the prep took a little longer as we had to figure out the conditions we want to capture on film at the chosen locales. Fitoor will release as per schedule in July 2015,"he asserts.

Meanwhile, Disney India has announced their next collaboration with Abhishek- a cinematic rendition of Mahabharata which the director, known by his nickname Gattu, will start after wrapping up the shoot of his Katrina Kaif-Aditya Roy Kapoor starrer by the end of this year.

The tome has seen plenty of cinematic renditions, the latest being Jayantilal Gada's animated version. But unlike the latter, Kapoor's Mahabharata will be a live action epic with a script penned by writer Ashok Banker, who is well known for his eight-volume Ramayana series.

When Mirror contacted the director, he said that the Bhagwad Gita inspired him to take up the project. "There was a phase in my life when I was going through hell. It was the spiritual solace I got from the Bhagwad Gita which gave me the courage to carry on," asserts Gattu.


But isn't the scale of the project giving him the jitters?

"It's all about going out there and making the impossible," he says confidently. "Unless we attempt it, we will never know if we are capable of making it. Look at what the West has achieved. They routinely make films on such a lavish scale and with every new film break the current record. My idea is to make the Mahabharata on the same scale as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings series."