Jolly LLB 2 goes on floors in Mumbai with Akshay Kumar, Anu Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla

Jolly LLB 2, the second installment of Bollywood's first legal franchise, will go on floors on 18 July at a studio in Mumbai.

The Subhash Kapoor-directorial, which is a sequel to 2012 sleeper-hit Jolly LLB, is based on the real life story of a Kanpur-based lawyer named Jagdish Mishra. The cast of the film, Akshay Kumar, Saurabh Shukla and Anu Kapoor, are currently in Mumbai for the shooting.

After the Mumbai schedule, a major chunk of the film will be shot at Lucknow and Varanasi, followed by a short schedule in Kashmir.

Jolly LLB is produced by Fox Star Studios. According to sources, the legal drama will be Akshay Kumar's first release of 2017.

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A few days ago, Akshay Kumar had revealed that playing a lawyer on screen would prove to be challenging.

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"Jolly LLB 2 is a nice script and I quite liked it. I really liked the directors' (Subhash Kapoor) work and I have never played a lawyer's role ever. It is something that I am going to enjoy," he said.