After a successful 2022 on-screen, actor Anupam Kher is preparing to go back 20 years and direct a film again.
Beloved Indian actor Anupam Kher (“The Silver Linings Playbook,” “New Amsterdam”) has had a tremendous 2022 on screen. This year’s credits include three successful Indian films – “Kashmir Files”, “Karthikeya 2” and “Uunchai” – but now the familiar face says he is ready to return behind the camera.
Speaking to Variety on the side-lines of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Kher said, “I would love to direct. After a long time, a story has come to me. My niece is autistic and I have a story about a grandfather and his autistic granddaughter who live together. I have a rough structure already. Once I write the script, I may start by the end of this year or next year.”
Such a move would come twenty years after his feature directing debut, 2002’s “Om Jai Jagadish”.
Before that, he will close out this year with the release of Tamil horror “Connect” (December 2022), in which Kher plays a priest conducting an exorcism via Zoom.
