The journey of South Indian filmmakers to Bollywood has been a trend for a long time, and joining this list now will be Kannada director Pawan Kumar. Having made his debut with Lifeu Ishtene, the critically-acclaimed director of Lucia is foraying into the Hindi film industry.
Pawan’s last outing was the remake of U-Turn in Tamil and Telugu, starring Samantha Akkineni. Having also made his directorial debut on the digital platform with web series Leila, he now gets ready to helm a Hindi project. Pawan has so far kept tight-lipped about this move. However, sources say the director is getting associated with a big production house and will direct a film for a big Bollywood hero. Pawan is currently preparing the script, and a big announcement is expected to be made by the producers in September. Going by the preparation work, it seems that the film will go on the floor by the year-end or early 2020.
The director has been wanting to do a film on the chemical formula of Nicotine, which he had titled as C10H14N2. Whether this will now be made in Hindi, or if it will be a totally new subject will be known when the production house decides to make it official.