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From one Tiwari to another

Ayushmann Khurrana will soon work with Nitesh Tiwari, the filmmaker-husband of the former’s Bareilly Ki Barfi director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari.

After the resounding success of Dangal, director Nitesh Tiwari and producer Sajid Nadiadwala are set to go with another film. This time around, Tiwari has opted for Ayushmann Khurrana, who had earlier played the lead in his wife Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s film Bareilly Ki Barfi.

“Nitesh has been very fond of the kind of work that Ayushmann has been doing, and now he has a subject that would suit Ayushmann the most. Additionally, Sajid has given young actors like Arjun Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Sushant Singh Rajput big Rs 100 crore hits like 2 States, Judwaa 2 and Chhichhore, and with Ayushmann belting out seven hits in a row and the last two being Rs 100 crore films, it does seem like the project is a win-win for all,” says a source.

With socially relevant films being made by everyone in the film industry now, even Sajid seems to have realised that after the resounding success of Chhichhore, which was not just a comedy.

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