EXCLUSIVE: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tigmanshu Dhulia team up for musical thriller Woh Phir Kabhi Dikha Nahi : Bollywood News

From Gangs of Wasseypur and Manjhi: The Mountain Man to Raat Akeli Hai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tigmanshu Dhulia have crossed paths in Hindi cinema for greater than a decade. Nonetheless, their affiliation has largely been as fellow actors quite than as an actor-director duo. That long-pending collaboration is lastly occurring, as Bollywood Hungama has solely discovered that Dhulia is ready to direct Siddiqui in a musical thriller.

EXCLUSIVE: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tigmanshu Dhulia workforce up for musical thriller Woh Phir Kabhi Dikha Nahi

The movie relies on veteran poet and creator Uday Prakash’s brief story Woh Phir Kabhi Dikha Nahi. Particulars of the plot have been saved beneath wraps, however sources point out that the story is ready towards the backdrop of a slum in Delhi. Capturing has reportedly already been accomplished, and the movie is predicted to launch on a streaming platform by the top of this yr.

The movie will mark Siddiqui’s second venture rooted in slum life. Beforehand, he starred in Sudhir Mishra’s Severe Males (2020), by which he performed a sharp-witted slum dweller dwelling in Mumbai who, suffering from his underprivileged standing, invents an outrageous story that his 10-year-old son is a mathematical genius and little one prodigy. In distinction, Woh Phir Kabhi Dikha Nahi is believed to be extra of a dramatic thriller with musical undertones.

Final seen in Netflix India’s Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders, Nawazuddin Siddiqui is at present capturing for Sohum Shah’s extremely anticipated people horror Tumbbad 2. He’ll subsequent function in Zee Studios’ Blind Bahu, a darkish comedy directed by Ravi Varma, the stunt director of Raees and Gadar 2. Siddiqui additionally headlines JioHotstar’s adaptation of the American medical drama sequence Home, which is ready to premiere later this yr.

In the meantime, Tigmanshu Dhulia is awaiting the discharge of Ghamasaan, which premieres on ZEE 5 on September 11. The crime thriller, starring Arshad Warsi and Pratik Gandhi, is impressed by the life and occasions of dreaded dacoit Dadua and brings Dhulia again to the world of dacoits following the late Irrfan Khan-starrer Paan Singh Tomar (2012). Additionally starring Rajpal Yadav and Ishita Dutta and written by Piiyush Singh and Ram Yash Singh, the movie marks Dhulia’s return to route after six years.

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