Bhubaneswar: After helming the highly acclaimed 2018 biographical drama, Manto, Nandita Das is in Odisha capital to shoot her next venture starring comedian Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami.
Taking to his official Twitter handle, Nandita wrote: “Writer-Director-Producer Nandita Das teams up with Kapil Sharma in a never seen before avatar of a food delivery rider. Kapil will be joined by Shahana Goswami as the female lead. Filming soon!”
The yet-to-be-titled project is being produced by ApplauseEntertainment and Nandita Das Initiatives.
“The film is set in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, and the shooting will begin later this month,” movie critic Tarn Adarsh tweeted.
Notably, Kapil had earlier asked a fan from Odisha, who had hoped to meet him at Amritsar, to come to Bhubaneswar as he would soon be visiting the city.
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Talking about the film, Kapil said, “I am very excited about this project, not because I am doing a film, but because I am doing Nandita Das’ film, whom I have seen both as an actor and a director. She has a very distinct and deep way of looking at things and a keen eye for detailing. So my job as an actor is to just do what she tells me. Her work is very different from mine, and I am happy that the audience will get to see a new side of me.”
He added, “An artist is always thirsty to do something different! The people behind the project, Nandita Das and Sameer Nair, are both extremely passionate and good at what they make, so I am really excited to be doing this film.”
According to Nandita, the film “attempts to make visible what’s hidden in plain sight.”
She added, “And for this, the cast and crew have serendipitously come together. One day, Kapil Sharma popped up on my screen! I hadn’t seen his show, but I could see him wholly representing the ‘common man’, despite not being one anymore! I am certain he will surprise everyone, including himself, with his natural candidness.”
Sameer Nair, CEO of Applause Entertainment, said that Nandita first narrated this idea as a short. “We loved it so much that we actively encouraged her to expand it into a full feature. And we are elated to say that the idea is blossoming into a wonderful film that captures the lives of the invisible, ‘ordinary’ people who actually keep this country and our economy running.”
Nandita is putting up the KIIT guest house here.
