Sonam Kapoor, Dulquer Salmaan to star in film adaptation of Anuja Chauhan's 'The Zoya Factor'

MUMBAI: Sonam Kapoor and south superstar Dulquer Salmaan are set to star in the big screen adaptation of Anuja Chauhan's bestselling novel ' The Zoya Factor'.

The film will mark Dulquer's Bollywood acting debut.

The Fox Star Studios and Adlabs Film project will hit the screens on April 5 next year.

Super happy to be a part of this unique story #ZoyaFactor an adaptation of Anuja Chauhan's bestseller. Releasing on April 5, 2019! Directed by #AbhishekSharma, co-starring @dulQuer @foxstarhindi #AdlabsFilms pic.twitter.com/Xz7G909VDF

— Sonam Kapoor (@sonamakapoor) March 13, 2018

"We are very excited to collaborate with Adlabs Films for 'Zoya Factor'. It's a hat-trick for us at Fox Star Studios with Sonam, in the past we had blockbuster films like 'PRDP' and National Award winning film 'Neerja'. We are equally excited to have south superstar Dulquer alongside Sonam," Rucha Pathak, Chief Creative Officer, Fox Star Studios said in a statement.

So I am writing Zoya and Nikhil dialogues again, after 10 years and it’s still so much fun. Such a sweetie couple this one is, with their fierce motivations, out-of-control frisson and stupid scraps. Excited for April 2019 😍😍😍 pic.twitter.com/E07CjibxUK

— anuja chauhan (@anujachauhan) March 13, 2018

'Tere Bin Laden' director Abhishek Sharma will helming the rom-com, which revolves around a girl named Zoya Solanki, who was born at the moment when India lifted the 1983 World Cup. She meets the Indian Cricket Team through her job as an executive in an advertising agency and ends up becoming a lucky charm for the team in the 2010 Cricket World Cup.

"Cricket (is) woven into a rom-com and touching on superstition and luck, it's an amazing book for a screen adaptation. The book has many layers, characters and tracks. Sonam was the first person that came to my mind as she's as bubbly as Zoya and Dulquer will play Nikhil Khoda, the captain of the Indian Cricket Team in the film," Abhishek said.