Nitesh Tiwari talks about his next directorial Chhichhore

After delivering the biggest hit of his career, Dangal, filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari has now moved on to shoot his next movie Chhichhore. The filmmaker commenced the shoot of his upcoming film on 30th September in Mumbai. Headlined by Sushant Singh Rajput and Shraddha Kapoor, Chhichhore is set in an engineering college and sees some of its prominent characters ageing from college-goers to middle-aged individuals.

Sharing some interesting details about the project, Tiwari says, “I spent four years of my student life in the IIT-Bombay hostel, where giving everyone nicknames that ranged from conventional to weird is a kind of a tradition. While Aniruddh would become Anni and Sandeep was Sandy, the weird ones were contextual,” the director says.

He adds that many of the characters shown in his next derive their inspiration from some real-life experiences. “In the film, we have an angsty guy called Acid, another guy who misses his mother a lot is called Mummy.”

The director believes these nicknames often tend to stick for life. “I still call my college friends Guppa, Gucci, Puke, B-Zero, Dard Kumar, Skinny, Bhindi, Danda,” he laughs.

Talking about finalizing the leads, Anni and Maya, of his next, Nitesh says that casting them was challenging as they were required to look convincing before and after the time-leap. “Sushant and Shraddha are phenomenal actors. And fortunately for me, Sajid sir (Nadiadwala, producer) understands the creative vision of his director. We had long chats about the protagonists. He was happy to see Sushant and Shraddha as Anni and Maya as this is also the first time they have paired up on screen,” Nitesh reveals.

Presented by Fox Star Studios and produced by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, Chhichhore is slated to hit theatres on August 30, 2019.