Emraan to play detective

In a first, Emraan Hashmi will be essaying a role based on the life of India’s top detective Suryakant Bhande Patil, who has solved 120 child kidnapping cases for free. The film titled ‘Father’s Day’ is an emotional father-son story based on a Gujarati book ‘Drishyam Adrishyam’ by author Praful Shah.

The film will be directed by debutante director Shantanu Baaghchi, who has directed over 300 advertising films and will have its screenplay and dialogues written by Ritesh Shah, the acclaimed writer of films like ‘Airlift’, ‘Pink’ and ‘Raid’. The film produced by Emraan Hashmi, Priya Gupta and Kalpana Udyawar will be shot in 2019 across Maharashtra.