Fate works in mysterious ways. In 2015, Sujoy Ghosh had announced the screen adaptation of Keigo Higashino’s most acclaimed work, The Devotion of Suspect X, with Saif Ali Khan. While the project did not materialise, the director wasn’t quite ready to let go of a story that is counted among the best mysteries in recent times. 

Seven years down the line, he is ready to helm the adaptation, and in a strange twist of fate, it will be headlined by Khan’s actor-wife Kareena Kapoor Khan. The film — also starring Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma — will go on floors in March. It will mark Kapoor’s first project since the birth of her younger son Jehangir.