Jisshu Sengupta is on a roll. While the dashing Tolly actor is all geared up for his next release,
Aparna Sen directed ‘Ghawre Bairey Aaj’ which also stars
Anirban Bhattacharya and Tuhina Das in the lead, he has also been roped in for Anu Menon’s upcoming biopic on Indian writer and human calculator
Shakuntala Devi
.
We all know
Vidya Balan will be seen in the titular role and the latest news is Jisshu will play her on-screen husband Paritosh Banerji who was an IAS officer from Kolkata, and was married to Shakuntala in the mid-1960s when she returned to India from London. However, they got separated in 1979.
Meanwhile, Vidya Balan essays the iconic mathematics wizard who is best known as ‘human computer’. While the biopic is right now in the pre-production stage, the team is working on the other cast members.
Jisshu has been playing some crucial roles in a number of Hindi ventures off late. His last Bollywood appearance was Maharaja Gangadhar Rao in the Rani Lakshmi Bai’s biopic ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’ which released earlier this year. He is also a part of Alia Bhatt and Sanjay Dutt-starrer ‘
Sadak 2
’ along with Mahesh Manjrekar’s upcoming ‘Devidas Thakur’.
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