Bhushan Kumar

Akshay Kumar

Bhool Bhulaiyaa

After the Kartik Aaryan, Ananya Panday and Bhumi Pednekar-starrer remake of BR Chopra’s 1978 drama Pati Patni Aur Woh and a retelling of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 1975 slice-of-life comedy Chupke Chupke with Rajkummar Rao reprising Dharmendra’s role,has green-lit a sequel. While the two projects are in various stages of production, Mirror has learnt that the filmmaker’s next is a follow-up to his 2007 production, theand Vidya Balan-starrer horror-comedy“Bhushan wanted to make a part 2 of Bhool Bhulaiyaa for a while now and has cracked an idea with Farhad Samji, who will be writing and directing the film. It is in the development stage and will feature a fresh cast. Once the final script is locked, the team will kick off casting and other pre-production formalities,” informs a source close to the development.The news comes a few weeks after Bhushan’s production house T-Series registered the title Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2. The original, directed by Priyadarshan, was an official remake of the 2005 Rajinikanthstarrer Tamil film Chandramukhi, which in turn was a remake of the 1993 Malayalam film, Manichitrathazhu, which had featured Mohanlal and Shobhana as leads. It revolved around a couple played by Vidya and Shiney Ahuja, who decide to stay in their ancestral home, paying no heed to the warnings about ghosts on the premises. Soon, mysterious occurrences force him to call his psychiatrist-friend Dr Aditya Shrivastav (Akshay) to bail them out of the situation.Farhad is presently busy with his first solo directorial, Housefull 4. He has previously directed the Akshay-starrer Entertainment and Housefull 3 with his writer-brother Sajid. His upcoming writing credits include Varun Dhawan’s Coolie No 1 remake, Rohit Shetty’s Sooryavanshi, Ahmed Khan’s Baaghi 3 and the horror-comedy Laxmi Bomb, in which Akshay’s character is possessed by a transgender ghost.