Anurag Kashyap is heading back to his comfort zone. The director behind “Gangs of Wasseypur” and “Dev.D” has crafted another quintessential North Indian story with Amazon MGM Studios India’s “ Nishaanchi ,” but this time he’s trading gangsters for family drama.

Set for theatrical release on Sept. 19, “Nishaanchi” stars newcomer Aaishvary Thackeray in a dynamic double role as twin brothers Babloo and Dabloo — “mirror images yet stark opposites in their beliefs” — alongside Vedika Pinto, Monika Panwar, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, and Kumud Mishra.

“‘Wasseypur’ was more of a gangster film about very stupid, very low IQ gangsters,” Kashyap tells Variety . “And this is a film about a family. About a mother, about her two sons and falling in love with one girl, and about Kanpur and Lucknow.

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