Delhi, India
Homi Adajania will now be directing the sequel to Hindi Medium, which originally starred Irrfan Khan and Pakistani actress Saba Qamar in a hard-hitting and emotional narrative of an important social issue.
Adajania explains the upcoming movie as an "amusing yet emotional" film starring Irrfan Khan in the lead again. Meanwhile, there are reports that Saif Ali Khan's teenage daughter Sara Ali Khan is being considered to star opposite Irrfan.
In a statement, Adajania said: "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."
The sequel will be produced by Dinesh Vijan's Maddock Films who said, "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."
Super news! @homiadajania is all set to direct #DineshVijan's #HindiMedium sequel.
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— Maddock Films (@MaddockFilms) February 19, 2018