The Mehta Boys

At theage of 65, Boman Irani is doing his directorial debut with ‘The Mehta Boys’. The movie will have a direct to OTT release on the 7th of February. It stars Avinash Tiwary and Boman Irani and the plot is about the strained relationship of a father and son.

Boman Irani has given beautiful performances in movies like ‘Jolly LLB’, ‘Housefull’, ‘Munna Bhai M.B.B.S’ and many more. He has starred in Telugu movies like Naa Peru Surya and Kaappan as well. It will be curious to see him making a film for the first time.

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And fans can put their hopes on the film because Irani has written the screenplay with an Academy Award winning screenwriter. The movie is written by Alexander Dinelaris and Boman Irani together.

Alexander Dinelaris got his Oscar for the wonderful ‘Birdman’ and is known for other movies like ‘The Revenant’, ‘Carmen’ and more.

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It does not happen so often that an Oscar winning international writer is coming to contribute his talent to an Indian film. And it looks like people are going to like this movie.




Bollywood actors do not focus much on the writing when they opt for filmmaking, but Boman Irani is brave enough to make some changes to the norm and it will hopefully turn out in his favour.

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