Not long ago, it was reported that Varun Dhawan will play the lead in Sriram Raghavan's next executive endeavor Ekkis. The film will rotate around the life of Param Vir Chakra beneficiary Arun Khetarpal who was martyred at 21 years old during the India-Pakistan War of 1971. That should be the main film of Varun to go on floors, after Street Dancer 3D's delivery. 

However, the Covid episode began and shoot was slowed down. Presently, with shoots continuing with restricted individuals on set, Sriram's film has been pushed to one year from now. A source uncovers, "Sriram's film is a significant war dramatization that should be shot broadly in various pieces of India. Besides, it will require a few entertainers since it is a period film dependent on the India-Pakistan faceoff. With constraints to have just 50 individuals greatest on the sets, it's not plausible to shoot a film of this scale. Despite the fact that CGI might have been an alternative, however Sriram would not like to settle on his narrating. The film was required to commence at some point now, however it will presently happen just in the later 50% of 2021."Meanwhile, Varun has marked three different movies and he will finish every one of those ventures before hopping on to Ekkis. "Varun has Raj Mehta's straightaway and Amar Kaushik's Bhediya which will begin consecutive. From that point onward, he has marked Sajid Nadiadwala's next creation adventure Sanki which is an activity parody that goes on the floors one year from now after he finishes these two movies. Simply after he completes all the three movies, he will proceed onward to Sriram's straightaway. He adored the content and it will be the first occasion when he will play a man in uniform, so Varun additionally needs this film to be shot the way it should be shot."