Shekhar Kapur's daughter Kaveri to make debut in Kunal Kohli's romantic comedy

Kunal Kohli is set to return to the director's chair with the romantic drama, Bobby Aur Rishi Ki Love Story. The film will also mark the debut of director Shekhar Kapur's daughter Kaveri, who will star opposite Vardhan Puri, grandson of the late Amrish Puri.

Kohli shared an image of the first clapperboard while announcing the project on social media on Friday.

The title of the film is a throwback to one of the more iconic romantic Hindi films, Bobby (1973), and includes the name of its leading man, Rishi Kapoor. 

Puri made his debut in 2019 with Yeh Saali Aashiqui. He has also signed on to play a key role in Vrinda Kher's The Last Show, with Anupam Kher and Satish Kaushik.

Kaveri, a singer-songwriter, made her debut as a vocalist at 17. She recently collaborated with her father on a single, 'Smell Of The Rain'. 

The names of the leads had been kept under wraps, with the filmmaker releasing on 25 August an image from a script-reading session that had the artistes' faces obscured.

Kohli recently directed the web-series Ramyug and is also set to begin work on an adaptation of the American comedy drama Casual.

Correction, 1 September 2021: The year of release of Bobby was 1973 and not 1975 as mentioned in an earlier version of this report.