Sunjay Dutt and Madhuri Dixit are ready to pair up after 21 years in an upcoming movie ‘Shiddat’ by Karan Johar. Late queen of bollywood Sridevi was selected for the lead female role of the movie but due to her unfortunate passing the role was later offered to Madhuri. Shiddat is to be directed by Abhishek Varman, who was also the director of ‘2 States’ film. The movie also stars Aditya Roy Kapur, Sonakshi Sinha, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt, in key roles. Jhanvi Kapoor, the daughter of late Sridevi confirmed on Instagram about Madhuri accepting the lead female role of the upcoming film ‘Shiddat’. Abhishek Varman’s next film was very close to mom’s heart …Dad, Khushi and I are thankful to Madhuriji for now being a part of this beautiful film… A post shared by Janhvi Kapoor (@janhvikapoor) on Mar 19, 2018 at 1:12am PDT Sunjay and Madhuri were last seen together on the big screen in ‘Mahaanta’ (1997). The couple spread magic on the screen in several other movies like ‘Saajan’, ‘Khalnayak’, ‘Kanoon Apna Apna’, ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’, ‘Ilaaka’, ‘Thanedaar’, ‘Sahibaan’.