Nawazuddin Siddiqui to star with Salman Khan

Nawazuddin will soon be off to the US for the Sundance Film Festival, where his film Liars Dice will be screened. PHOTO: FILE

MUMBAI: Critically acclaimed actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who is making inroads into commercial Hindi cinema, has been signed to play a major role in the forthcoming Salman Khan-starrer, Kick. He is excited about sharing the frame with the superstar.

“I’ve been told not to say anything about my role, but I am looking forward to working with Salman Khan. He is such a huge star and doing terrific work,” said Nawazuddin.

For now, he is gearing up for his role of a classical vocalist in Sarthak Dasgupta’s film, The Music Teacher.

The film requires Nawazuddin to be an adept vocalist. He will be getting trained by a Hindustani classical vocal maestro for the character.

While an expert vocalist can sing for Nawaz, he would like to look convincing and is thereby seeking professional training.

Nawazuddin is surprised at how action packed the year 2013 was for him. “I thought 2012 was too eventful a year for me. In 2013, I only had two releases, Bombay Talkies and The Lunchbox. But I got so much praise for both of them. It continues even now,” said the actor, who has been festival-hopping all over the world.

He recently returned from New York after attending New York’s South Asian Film Festival where Nawaz-starrer Monsoon Shootout was the opening film.

“Now, I go back to the US to the Sundance Film Festival with Geetu Mohandas’s road movieLiars Dice.

So, it seems that the festival journey will continue in 2014. In the last two years, there hasn’t been a single major international film festival that hasn’t featured my films,” he said.