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29 March 2024

Cannes effect: Vidya Balan hot property in Bollywood

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By Noel Singh Dias / Sanskriti Media & Entertainment

Ekta Kapoor’s production is known for signing on covetable directors and they have added a new name to the list.

Sujoy Ghosh has been appointed by Ekta to direct the new thriller being made under the banner.

After the success of ‘Kahaani’, Sujoy has very much become the man to go to if you want nail-biting suspense. Which is why Ekta has signed him. Not too many details have been made public about this upcoming film, but Vidya Balan is expected to play the leading role. 

She has worked successfully with both Ekta and Sujoy in ‘The Dirty Picture’ and ‘Kahaani’ respectively and it’s only canny business sense to bring her on board their joint venture.

‘Kahaani’ brought Vidya the National Award. Sujoy is simultaneously also working on ‘Kahaani 2’ which will be the sequel to ‘Kahaani’.

Considering that the first movie won the National Award for the script, Sujoy is under tremendous pressure to make the sequel even better. “I’ll have to write a better second script. I can’t take it easy as there is more responsibility,” he says.

Apart from these two projects, he is also planning on making a film with Amitabh Bachchan and Naseeruddin Shah titled ‘Badla’. Let’s take a wild guess about who the leading lady of the film is. None other than Vidya! She is now awaiting the release of the comedy thriller ‘Ghanchakkar’. It’s not just Sujoy, even Ekta is on a thriller producing spree. Post ‘Ek Thi Daayan’, Ekta’s camp will release ‘Ragini MMS 2’ directed by Bhushan Patel.