Here’s why Vir Das’ next will give you the Austin Powers feels
- Dec 27, 2018
- 2 min read
In 2017, Vir Das announced his foray into producing and writing content. His first venture, Hasmukh is a co-production with Nikhil Advani and has Vir playing a full fledged dark character for the first time on screen.
Now another interesting project, which, once again, has been written by Vir, will be going on floors next year. The film is titled Happy Patel and is currently under the works, with Vir prepping the play the lead in the film.
However, what’s interesting about the film is that Vir has drawn massive inspiration for the film from international hit comedy spy series, Austin Powers. Directed by Jay Roach and starring Mike Myers, Austin Powers is a global hit franchise from late 90s early 2000s which became a worldwide success across the three films which were made under it. Vir is inspired to create such a spy character and says Happy Patel is inspired by that with a whole of comedy, action, drama packed into one big project.
Speaking about it, Vir said, “Ifeel Indian cinema is only scraping their surface now of what’s to come. 2018 has been an amazing year for content. People are now experimenting with great stories, new genres. Austin Powers is an iconic film and it gave me the base inspiration to work on something that’s inspired from it, but it’s a completely different story. We will begin production for Happy Patel in 2019. I’m currently wrapping up my international commitments and then we begin the pre production for Happy Patel”
We just can’t wait to see what Vir has in mind on the screen, can we?
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