Nawazuddin Siddiqui to play lead in Ritesh Batra’s next

After the highly-acclaimed The Lunchbox, Nawazuddin Siddiqui is all set to team up with director Ritesh Batra again. “I’m doing Ritesh’s next. It’s an intense subject and is completely different from The Lunchbox.

And, unlike the last time where I wasn’t really the protagonist, this time I play the lead,” says Nawaz who makes his Hollywood debut later this month in the much talked-about Lion. “It isn’t really a Hollywood debut as much as a cameo. I’m there in only one scene. I did it because the director, Garth Davis, personally asked me to,” reveals Nawaz, for whom the length of a role never mattered. He adds, “I’m as happy with my lead in Haraamkhor and Ritesh Batra’s film as I am with my cameo in Lion.