Race 2 producer Ramesh Taurani of Tips Films is looking forward to the television premiere of his film on May 12

The Abbas-Mustan directed thriller starring Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez and Ameesha Patel released in January. It is the highest grossing film of 2013 so far. It crossed the R 100 crore plus mark in the country while the overseas collections were Rs 37 crore.

Says Taurani, `Race 2 has proved to be the highest grosser of 2013. It also had the highest opening for a Saif-Anil-Deepika starrer.`


The filmmaker is now hoping that the film's television premiere too fetches high TRPs.

Meanwhile his production house is busy with their next offering Ramaiya Vastavaiya, directed by Prabhudeva. The film marks the debut of Girish, son of Kumar Taurani who is Ramesh Taurani's brother. It is slated to release on July 19.

Another film of Taurani that is on the floors is the Shahid Kapoor-Ileana D'Cruz starrer Phata Poster Nikla Hero.


Taurani's other project which marks the directorial debut of the writer duo Sajid- Farhad goes on the floors in July. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Tamanaah Bhatia, Mithun Chakraborthy, Prakash Raj, Sonu Sood, Johnny Lever and Krushna Abhishek. The film is slated to release on March 28, 2014.