Vir Das in 2017 announced his foray into producing and writing content. His first Hasmukh is a co-production with Nikhil Advani which has Vir playing a full-fledged dark character for the first time on screen. Now another interesting project, which has been written by Vir will be going on floors next year. The film is titled Happy Patel and is currently under the works, with Vir prepping the play the lead in the film.

However, what's interesting about the film is that Vir has drawn massive inspiration for the film from international hit comedic spy series, Austin Powers. Directed by Jay Roach and starring Mike Myers, is a global hit franchise from late 90s early 2000s which became a global hit across the three films which were made under it. Vir is inspired to create such a spy character and says Happy Patel is inspired by that with a whole of comedy, action, drama packed into one big project.