No, the next thing to emerge from Shah Rukh Khan’s company Red Chillies Entertainment isn’t a movie starring him. Instead, Red Chillies has...
No, the next thing to emerge from Shah Rukh Khan’s company Red Chillies Entertainment isn’t a movie starring him. Instead, Red Chillies has picked up the modestly budgeted Kaamyaab, starring Sanjay Mishra as a bit-part actor aiming to achieve a personal milestone by starring in his 500th movie. Kaamyaab marks the directorial debut of Hardik Mehta, who won praise and awards for his short film Amdavad Ma Famous in 2015. The comedy will be released on March 6.
Kaamyaab was originally bankrolled by Manish Mundhra’s Drishyam Films, and Red Chillies came into the picture after the movie was completed, Chief Operating Officer Gaurav Verma told Scroll.in. “Manish and I met and we were discussing various opportunities when he brought up Kaamyaab,” Verma said. “It was doing the rounds of international festivals at the time. We watched it and really loved it and felt that it was the right film to step into and take to consumers in the right way.”
In recent months, Red Chillies acquired Sujoy Ghosh’s Badla (2019), an official remake of the Spanish thriller The Invisible Guest (2016), and Abhay Chopra’s Ittefaq (2017), an update on the Rajesh Khanna-Nanda starrer of the same name from 1969. Badla, which was originally produced by Azure Entertainment, did especially...
