Siddharth Roy Kapur ropes in director RS Prasanna for his next

Team Udayavani, Oct 6, 2017, 2:00 PM IST

Mumbai: With his first Hindi directorial debut faring well at the box office, “Shubh Mangal Saavdhan” director RS Prasanna has been signed on by producer Siddharth Roy Kapur for his next.

Siddharth said he is happy to be collaborating with Prasanna. “Like the rest of the country, I absolutely loved ‘Shubh Mangal Saavdhan’. RS is an extremely talented filmmaker with a fresh voice and has an ability to make unique content reach out to a mainstream audience.

“We hope to give the audiences a truly special film through our collaboration,” he said in a statement. Siddharth, who has produced several critically-acclaimed and commercially-successful films such as “Dangal”, “ABCD2”, “Haider”, “Barfi” and “Kai Po Che”, founded his own production company Roy Kapur Films after a long stint at Disney and UTV Motion Pictures.

Some of his upcoming ventures include – biopic on Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space with Aamir Khan playing the lead and “Dangal” director Nitesh Tiwari’s next, which is based on the book “How I braved Anu Aunty and Cofounded a Million Dollar Company”.