Sandeep Modi couldn’t have asked for a better 2023. The creator-director won appreciation for his deft handling of The Night Manager, a show that had the tall order of matching its British original. Even as praise continues to pour in, Modi is busy “manifesting” the future. And it includes a Karan Johar production. “Karan and I have wanted to do a film since Chumbak in 2017. We have been manifesting. Even before The Night Manager trailer dropped, Karan and I knew we were [collaborating]. The film is a genre-bender. It will be a popular film, but it won’t be seedha,” he grins, adding that the project is currently at the writing stage.

(From left) Aditya Roy Kapur’s The Night Manager is an adaptation of the British original of the same name