‘Fukrey 2’ put on hold

Director Mrigdeep Singh Lamba says he has put Fukrey’s sequel on hold and will be starting his next comic venture sometime this year.

Produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment, Fukrey turned out to be a surprise hit, after which the makers decided to make a sequel.

“We were working on Fukrey 2, but we were not that happy with the script. We are trying to crack on the right idea. So we have kept that project on hold,” Lamba said.

The 2013 coming-of-age comedy starred Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh, Richa Chadha, Vishakha Singh, and Priya Anand in leading roles.

Lamba is working on another film, a comedy, which will also be backed by Excel Entertainment.

“We have started working on another script. We have locked another script, which is an out-and-out comedy. [The] casting for the film is under way. We have [a] couple of names, but don’t want to talk about it,” Lamba said.

The shooting for this film will start this year.