Film will mark the directorial debut of his assistant Aditya Nimbalkar
Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; September 14, 2017)

Vishal Bhardwaj had previously launched his former assistant director Abhishek Chaubey with the Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi black comedy Ishqiya in 2010. This year, Mirror (April 21) revealed that he will be launching Honey Trehan, who has assisted him on Omkara and 7 Khoon Maaf.

Honey, who along with Abhishek has co-produced Konkona Sen Sharma’s directorial debut, A Death In The Gunj, earlier this year will turn director with an as-yet-untitled film, featuring Deepika Padukone as mafia queen Rahima Khan (popularly known as Sapna Didi) with Irrfan Khan portraying a local gangster, who is in love with her and helps in her mission to eliminate Dawood Ibrahim.

Now, Mirror has learnt that the 52-yearold filmmaker, along with Prernaa Arora and Arjun N Kapoor, will produce Aditya Nimbalkar’s debut directorial.

Aditya has earlier assisted Vishal on films like Kaminey, Haider and more recently Rangoon. The film is also expected to feature Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead.

“It’s a comedy drama and Vishal really liked the script, which Aditya has been working on for a while now. He has given him the nod and Vishal recently met Nawazuddin to discuss the character, who fits him to the T. The yet-untitled film is set in the hills of the North and is tentatively scheduled to kick off in December,” informs a source close to the development, adding that the hunt for the leading actress is currently on.

Prernaa and Vishal remained unavailable for comments.