Truly, wonders never cease. Actor-filmmaker Nandita Das has cast Kapil Sharma to play a food delivery rider in her next movie, which also stars Shahana Goswami as his wife. On her choice of the lead actor, Das, who is also producing the film, with Applause Entertainment, says, “One day, Kapil Sharma popped up on my screen! I hadn’t seen his show, but I could see him wholly representing the ‘common man’, despite not being one anymore! I am certain he will surprise everyone, including himself, with his natural candidness.” On his part, Kapil beams, “I am very excited because I’m doing Nandita Das’s film, whom I have seen both as an actor and a director. My job as an actor is to just do what she tells me. Her work is very different from mine, and I am happy that the audience will get to see a new side of me.” Shooting for the film, set in Bhubhaneshwar, Orissa, starts later this month.

In the loving memory of Rajiv Kapoor 

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