When filmmaker Rajiv Dhingra narrated the story of a couple going through a separation that he had in mind for a Punjabi film, comedian-actor Kapil Sharma immediately decided to come on board as producer. The film was to be set in India and Canada and Kapil was keen to act in it as well. But then he got busy with his comedy show on Sony and decided to bow out of the project, saying they should wait for the right time to collaborate.

Love Punjab was made with Punjabi actor-singer Amrinder Gill in the lead with Kapil recording a special song, “Akhiyan De Taarein“ which showed what the boy was going through after his parents file for divorce in Canada and how he yearns to return home to Punjab. Now, a year later, Rajiv has once again joined hands with Kapil on a character-driven story he is scripting. “It is about an underdog with Kapil in the lead. And since he is an actor of the masses with a national fan following, we have decided to make this film in Hindi,“ informs Rajiv.

Kapil and he grew up together in Amritsar and moved to Mumbai when the former joined The Great Indian Laughter Challenge in 2007. Rajiv went on to direct Kapil in Comedy Circus as well as Comedy Nights with Kapil. “When Kapil signed his first film, Abbas-Mustan's Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon, he told me that it was time for me too to direct films so I moved up from my 15-year-long career in TV as writer-director,“ says Rajiv, who is juggling with two other scripts, which he has also discussed with Kapil. “They will be emotional comedies. We have to decide which one will roll first.“