Things are looking up for the actor-comedian Sunil Grover. The powerhouse of talent who has regaled the audiences and many celebrities with his Gutthi and Dr.Mashoor Gulati avatars in Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma has bagged a Salman Khan film where he gets to play his best friend. After signing Vishal Bharadwaj’s Chhuriyaan, Sunil will be seen next in Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bharat along with Salman. Bharat also stars Priyanka Chopra in the lead.

Zafar told a leading daily, “I am excited to welcome Sunil into the Bharat family. He is one of the most loved names in the TV industry and has a huge fan following owing to his commendable work. He plays a pivotal role in the film, along with Salman who will age from 30 to 65 years in the film. The duo is sure to create magic.”

Bharat is a period drama that will be shot across locations in Abu Dhabi, Spain, Punjab and Delhi.

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Sunil is an able actor who has regaled the audience with his comic timing and mimicry on TV shows. He had also worked previously with Akshay Kumar in Gabbar is Back. It remains to be seen whether he plays a serious role in Bharat or gets to crack jokes as the lovable sidekick. Whatever it be the main crux is that he has got an integral and pivotal role in the film. Right now Sunil can be seen making the audience laugh at his antics in Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan Live with Bigg Boss 11 winner Shilpa Shinde.

Bharat, produced by Bhushan Kumar and Atul Agnihotri is an adaptation of the 2014 South Korean film, Ode to My Father. In a previous interview to a daily, Atul Agnihotri, who had seen the film at the Berlin Film Festival had shared that the original film was just an inspiration for Bharat to start with. He had thought after seeing the original movie that it will translate into a beautiful Hindi film. He was quoted as saying, “It starts in 1947 and ends in 2000 and is the journey of a country and also a person, both of whom go by the name of Bharat.”