Comedian-actor Vir Das will be working with filmmaker Nikkhil Advani on upcoming dark comedy Hasmukh.
According to reports, Sameer Nair-headed Applause Entertainment, the content studio from Aditya Birla Group will be backing the project. Vir and Advani will be writing and creating an original show, read a statement.
"This is going to be insane!!! So excited! Gentlemen, let's murder this," Vir tweeted. Praising Nair, he wrote: "It takes a killer sense of humour to greenlight this madness."
Apart from this show, Vir has been signed on by ABC for a new hour-long weekly dramedy FBI series Whiskey Cavalier, produced by Warner Bros.