Mumbai: Homi Adajania has been roped in to direct the sequel of Irrfan
Khan-starrer "Hindi Medium" and the filmmaker says the upcoming movie
will be "amusing yet emotional".
Dinesh Vijan s Maddock films is producing the project and Irrfan is set to return as the lead.
"I
ambled into Dinoo s (Dinesh Vijan) room and he was sitting down to a
narration. I had enjoyed the first one (Hindi Medium) and the way these
writers have taken the narrative forward is very clever. So yeah, I
pretty much gatecrashed the narration and it was so engaging and
hilarious that I told him I'd be happy to direct it if he had no
director attached to the project. It's been a while since I've found any
material so amusing yet emotional," Adajania said in a statement.
Vijjan
and Adajania have previously worked together on 2006 film "Being Cyrus"
and "Cocktail" starring Deepika Padukone, Saif Ali Khan and Diana
Penty.
"Homi doesn't make films very often as he refuses to do
stuff that doesn't bowl him over. But when I narrated this one to him,
he loved it. And when I saw his reaction, it was a no brainer. I guess
from Maddock's stable of directors, Homi was the most unlikely choice
for 'Hindi Medium 2' and that's exactly (why) I have signed him on," the
producer said.
Directed by Saket Chaudhary, "Hindi Medium",
which released last year, also featured Pakistani actor Saba Qamar and
Deepak Dobriyal.
PTI
