Mumbai, June 26 (IANS) Filmmaker Karan Johar has locked the festival of Dussehra on October 22 to release his production venture “Shaandaar”, starring actress Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor.

Karan took to micro-blogging site Twitter to make the announcement.

“#SHAANDAARonDUSSEHRA..will release on the 22nd of October,2015..@shahidkapoor@aliaa08 @foxstarhindi@DharmaMovies @FuhSePhantom” he tweeted.

Alia, who ventured into tinsel town with Karan’s directorial “Student Of The Year”, too seemed excited.

“#SHAANDAARonDUSSEHRA .. 22nd October 2015 !!!! And it’s trendinggggggg,” she tweeted.

The romantic film is being directed by Vikas Bahl of “Queen” fame, and it’s a co-production between Karan’s Dharma Productions and Phantom Films.