Watch: Robert De Niro congratulates Anupam Kher on his 500th film

Anupam announced his next Hollywood film 'The Big Sick' directed by Michael Showalter.

Anupam Kher has reached yet another milestone in his illustrious acting career by signing up another Hollywood film 'The Big Sick', which happens to be his 500th film.

The film is directed by Michael Showalter and stars Oscar Award winner Holly Hunter, Zoe Kazan, Ray Romano — star of the popular TV serial 'Everybody Loves Raymond' — and the Pakistan-born actor, writer, producer Kumail Nanjiani. The film deals with the marriage of a Pakistani with an American woman and is slated for release next year.

An elated Anupam shared a video by his 'Silver Lining Playbook' co-star Robert De Niro. Robert congratulated him on his 500th film and said, "Congratulations for finishing your 500th film, it is an amazing thing to do. In America i have done 95 movies, but doing 500 is incredible."

Happy to announce my 500th film 'The Big Sick'. And who else but to have Robert De Niro congratulate me. Jai Ho.:) pic.twitter.com/9fcYvnuLL7

— Anupam Kher (@AnupamPkher) June 14, 2016

Talking about reaching the milestone, Anupam said, “It has taken me 32 years to achieve this watershed moment, but when I look back, it is as if all that time has flashed by in a blink.”

As he was shooting abroad, Anupam was very conscious that with the epochal moment, he was happy to have done his nation proud. “Many people have played an important role in my career. The producers and directors gave me work. But I want to dedicate this achievement to the unsung, nameless and faceless workers of our industry: the spot boys, the technicians, the assistant cameramen, the make-up artistes, the costume assistants; indeed everyone working behind the scenes to make the magic happen for the big screen.”

Anupam's journey in the industry began over three decades ago when he arrived in Mumbai and took up residence at 2/15 Kher Wadi, Kher Nagar, Kher Road in Bandra-East. “I thought I had arrived and was Destiny’s child with that address, but it was not to be. It was a long haul before I bagged my first film, Mahesh Bhat’s Saraansh which was released on May 25, 1984.”

He was actually rejected by the Producers of the film, who preferred a recognised star for their project, even though he had been signed on for the role of the retired, principled school teacher B V Pradhan. But it was because of Kher’s insistence that ‘no one can do the role better than me!’ that got him back his break.

He is also gearing up for the release of Neeraj Pandey’s biopic 'Dhoni' and The 'Headhunter’s Calling', directed by Mark Williams and starring Gerard Butler and the many time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe.