Director Neeraj Pandey says despite the 21-day lockdown in the country, the team of his next, Chanakya is working on the Ajay Devgn-starrer while practising social distancing. Devgn is set to play the eponymous role in Chanakya, a historical drama on the master economist and royal advisor to the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta.

The movie will mark the first collaboration between Devgn and Pandey, known for films such as A Wednesday (2008), Baby (2015) and MS Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016).