Prateik Babbar joins Nitesh Tiwari's next

IANS  |  Mumbai 

Prateik is excited to join Shraddha Kapoor and Rajput in Tiwaris next yet-untitled project.

Prateik will be seen as antagonist, and he has already started training in basketball and football for the film.

"I'm looking forward to be a part of this project. has been very supportive and I'm ever grateful. I can't wait to work with Tiwari as well," Prateik said in a statement to IANS.

A student drama with a social message, the film is set in an engineering college and is about embracing success and failure with equanimity. The film is expected to roll by November 2018 and release in August 2019.

Tiwari is famous for "Dangal" and he also co-wrote "Bareilly Ki Barfi" with Shreyas Jain, which was directed by his wife

At the moment, Prateik is busy shooting for Mahesh Manjrekar's next "Devidas Thakur".

--IANS

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First Published: Tue, August 14 2018. 15:16 IST