Celebrity Fashion Designer Manish Malhotra to helm Meena Kumari Biopic with Kriti Sanon
Celebrity Fashion Designer Manish Malhotra to helm Meena Kumari Biopic with Kriti Sanon
Celebrity fashion designer Manish Malhotra forays into film direction. If media reports are to be believed, Manish will helm a biopic on late legendary actress Meena Kumari.
Kriti Sanon, last seen in Adipurush, gears up to play Meena Kumari in the biopic.
Source reveals that the T.series honcho Bhushan Kumar is backing the film currently in the scripting stage.
It is learnt that the film will celebrate the fascinating life of the tragedy queen of Indian cinema, Meena Kumari. Infact, Manish has often expressed that recreating the magic that Meena Kumari was, has been his ‘long cherished dream’.
However, there is no official.announcement by the makers yet.
Over the years, Kriti has proved her verstaility with films like ‘Mimi’, ‘Bhediya’, ‘Lukka Chuppi’, among several others.
In 2021 buzz was doing the grounds that Manish would go behind the camera for musical set in the background of the partition. Filmmaker Karan Johar was set to back the film. However, the film never saw the light of the day.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Kriti will next be seen in Vikas Bahl’s Ganpath -Part 1, The Crew starring next to Kareena Kapoor and Tabu.
She also has an untitled project with Shahid Kapoor in the pipeline. The film is expected to release in October 2023. Kriti will also share screen space with Kajol in her first production.
News input KV Raman
