Neha Maheshwri (BOMBAY TIMES; August 25, 2019)

After Mouni Roy, Ankita Lokhande, Mrunal Thakur and Radhika Madan, the latest actress, who is all set to make the transition from TV to the big screen is Asha Negi. She has been signed on to play Abhishek Bachchan’s love interest in Anurag Basu’s next, which also stars Rajkummar Rao and Aditya Roy Kapur. The film will also mark the reunion of the Dangal girls — Fatima Sana Sheikh and Sanya Malhotra.

While it has been speculated that it is a sequel to Anurag’s 2007 romantic-drama, Life In A...Metro, the filmmaker recently cleared that the two films have no resemblance apart from the fact that the new project have four intersecting stories. He also added that the film has a bit of crime and dark humour in it.

Asha, who catapulted to fame as Purvi Deshmukh in the TV show Pavitra Rishta, which also featured Ankita Lokhande, has been on a break from the small screen since some time.