Sonu Nigam plays the lead role in Chashme Baddoor ....

Chintuji, Veer Singh, Santosh Duggal, Ali Beg and Bauji. This is the array of characters Rishi Kapoor has to his credit in recent times.

Ranging from a disciplinarian elderly Sikh to a middle class guy struggling to live up to his family’s expectations to even playing god, Kapoor has dabbled in a wide variety of characters.

And now to add to this assortment, he will play Lallan Mian, a Hyderabadi panwala with a typical accent in David Dhawan’s version of the 1981 film Chashme Baddoor.

After Rascals, David Dhawan is gearing up to remake the Sai Paranjpe directed classic. He had already signed Ali Zafar and Sonu Nigam for the lead roles. Rishi Kapoor is the recent addition to the team.

A source divulged, “Davidji is very excited about making this all time classic. The film was a super hit and started a new trend of small budget films with humour and romance.

Davidji has already finalised Ali Zafar and Sonu Nigam in the roles of Faroque Shaikh and Ravi Baswani, respectively. Now Rishi Kapoor will be playing the role of Lallan Mian. In the original film, Saeed Jaffrey played the role of a local panwala who would give cigarettes on credit to these young guys.

It was a parallel track along to the Faroque Shaikh and Deepti Naval romance. It is an interesting casting as Rishi Kapoor is known for his unique comic timing.”

David Dhawan remained unavailable for comments. But we hope with his sense of humour, Chintuji surpasses the original Lallan Mian. It will give us all the more reason to laugh!