Experienced filmmaker Shyam Benegal’s last movie Welcome To Sajjanpur emerged as one of the astonish hits of 2008 garnering both critical acclaim and commercial box office success. Now the highly praised filmmaker is all set to start his next movie tentatively titled Abba Ka Kuan. In this movie as well Benegal has repeated Bhojpuri superstar Ravi Kishen after his last film Welcome To Sajjanpur. Ravi Kishen played the role of a bumbling hospital compounder in WTS and in Abba Ka Kuan too, Ravi will be essaying a comic part.

Shyam Benegal tells, “Yes, my next film is tentatively called Abba Ka Kuan. It’s based on a short story called Narsaiya Ki Baawdi written in 1988 by Jeelani Bano. The film stars Boman Irani, Ravi Kissen, Minissha Lamba, Sammir Dattani, Divya Dutta and Ravi Jhankal among others. Big Pictures is producing the film and we start shooting from Feb 1st.”
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