Irrfan Khan’s son Babil Khan and Alaya F are set to share the screen for the first time in a gripping crime thriller based on true events, according to a report by Pinkvilla.
The film will be helmed by Bodhayan Roychaudhury, the writer behind Vikrant Massey’s critically acclaimed Sector 36, and director of Talaakhon Mein Ek.
Babil, last seen in the OTT release Logout on Zee5, and had previously announced that he was stepping away from a planned collaboration with filmmaker Sai Rajesh citing “unforeseen circumstances”.
The decision followed social media controversy when a clip of Babil crying and stating, “Bollywood is so f****, Bollywood is so rude” went viral where he also mentioned several names including Shanaya Kapoor, Ananya Panday, Arjun Kapoor and outsiders like Siddhant Chaturvedi, Raghav Juyal and Adarsh Gourav which led netizens to assume that he was blaming the individuals he named and shortly after Babil deleted his Instagram account, further fueling concerns. He then later claimed his remarks were misinterpreted and insisted he was praising and not criticizing his peers.
Meanwhile Alaya F, was last seen in Srikanth opposite Rajkummar Rao.
