New Delhi: Veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher on Monday teased followers by revealing the first poster of his upcoming darkish thriller brief movie ‘Happy Birthday’, which additionally stars Aahana Kumra.
The ‘Hotel Mumbai’ actor took to his Instagram deal with and shared the poster together with the caption, “Excited to share the first look of our short film #HappyBirthday!! It has already been selected at some prestigious international film festivals! Hope you like it!”
Speaking about his journey all through the making of this brief movie to sharing his pleasure of making it to the Paris Play Film Festival, Anupam mentioned, “I enjoy working with young talent as they are enthusiastic and eager. They keep me charged as I take it as a challenge to keep reinventing myself. The short film is especially exciting and it gives me an opportunity to do something different. I’m glad that Happy Birthday is garnering international recognition. Congratulations to the entire team.”
Speaking about choosing the film, Aahana mentioned, “I instantly said a Yes to the film the minute, I read the script I think it was very very powerful script. It was very moving and you know it’s a Dark thriller despite that the performances of the actors will hold. Because the script is written so well.”
She then spoke concerning the movie being chosen for the Paris Play Film Festival and added, “I am so excited that it has been selected for the Paris Play Film Festival and I really look forward to the finals because I really think this film has great potential. Director Prasad (Kadam) has done a fantastic job along with the entire team and the credit goes to the crew and Anupam sir, off course so happy to be sharing screen space with him once again, I couldn’t be happier than this.”
The movie, which has additionally been chosen for the New York City International Film Festival, will mark Anupam and Aahana’s second collaboration after that includes within the 2019 critically-acclaimed film ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’.
Directed by Prasad Kadam, ‘Happy Birthday’ is produced by FNP Media. The upcoming brief movie, being touted as a darkish thriller, additionally marks the second collaboration between Kadam and FNP Media, who’re coming collectively put up ‘Chuha Billi’.
The brief movie is scheduled to launch in 2021.
Apart from ‘Happy Birthday’, Anupam has a number of different tasks within the pipeline together with ‘The Last Show’, ‘Mungilal Rocks’, and ‘The Kashmir Files’.