On break for biwi: Shimit Amin

Rumours that Shimit Amin is directing a film for Mira Nair and Yashraj Films are unfounded.

At the moment Shimit is stepping back to let his wife Megha Rawamswamy direct a film.

Megha who had co-written the script of Bejoy Nambiar’s Shaitaan is directing a film that her husband would never dream of making.

Says a source, “It’s a teen horror flick, Girls, on the lines of Peter Weir’s Picnic At Hanging Rock, but far more gruesome and targeted at a young market. Viacom 18 is producing it.” The reclusive Shimit who last came out to edit Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist has decided to take a backseat until his wife’s film is completed and released. Quite like R Balki who put his own career on hold, while wife Gauri Shinde directed her first film English Vinglish.