Amruta Patki in Apoorva Lakhia's Next

Amruta Patki in Apoorva Lakhia's Next

Apoorva Lakhia is turning producer with a supernatural thriller that will launch Ponds Femina  Miss India 2006 Amruta Patki as a leading lady.

Lakhia  apparently chose the aspirant after auditioning almost a dozen newcomers.

"I want to prove beauty queens can act," says Lakhia,though it's not Lakhia but his assistant Sean Arranha  who  will direct Amruta Patki.

Says Lakhia, "I won't only produce the film but also co-write it with Suresh Nair.  Hide N Seek is about  four friends played by  Purab Kohli,Arjan Bajwa, Ayaaz Khan(Genelia's fiancé in Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na) and Samir Kochhar whose terrible past catches up with them."

Lakhia is taking his duties as a producer very seriously. "My director Sean  is just a baby.We  need to nurture new talent not intimidate  them," says Lakhia probably referring  to  the way Lakhia was treated by his producer Sanjay Gupta during the making of  Shootout At Lokhandwala.

Interestingly Sean Arranha is also directing a "pure intense love story" for producer Vashu Bhagnnani with Zayed Khan in the lead.

 Zayed and Sean became buddies during the making of Lakhia's Mission Istaanbul. But  Zayed has moved on. -Sampurn Media