Shahid Kapoor is BACK on 'Padmavati' sets!

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati has been on the rocky path ever since it took off at Film City in Mumbai in November 2016. Earlier this year in January, members of the Rajput group Karni Sena stormed the set at Jaipur's Jaigarh Fort, damaged equipment and roughed up the director. The shooting came to a halt, it was then followed by a lull, after which he quietly moved to Kolhapur with a team of character artistes and started shooting battle sequences on the Mhasai Pathar plateau.

The shooting again hit a roadblock when miscreants sneaked in and set some boxes containing costumes and jewellery of junior artistes on fire on March 15. But Bhansali stayed put in Kolhapur and completed the remaining portions before flying back home.

This week, SLB flagged off another schedule in Mumbai's Film City with Shahid Kapoor who plays Maharaja Rawal Ratan Singh, Padmavati's husband. The actor had been taking sword-fighting and horse-riding lessons with a personal trainer as part of his prep. Shahid who was in Amritsar with wife Mira and daughter Misha, returned to the city on Monday and got into action straightaway, reports Mumbai Mirror. "Deepika Padukone who plays Rani Padmavati is expected to join him soon," a source told the tabloid.

Shobha Sant, CEO of SLB Films, admitted that they've beefed up security. "After the Kolhapur incident we wanted to be extra careful," she said. Padmavati is a dramatised account of the 1303 siege of the Chittor fort in Rajasthan with Ranveer Singh playing the antihero, Alauddin Khilji and Aditi Rao Hydari plays his young wife.