Raja Natwarlal is a new Bollywood crime/comedy movie based on the story of a conman. The movie is directed by Kunal Deshmukh and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur. It is a UTV Motion Pictures production and stars Emran Hashmi as the lead character alongside Paresh Rawal, Kay Kay Menon and Humaima Malik who will be acting in a bollywood movie for the first time.
The story is written by Parveez Shaikh and the dialogues are written by Sanjay Masoom. The story revolves around a conman named Raja who pull off a big robbery of a businessman but find out that the businessman was previously a gangster himself and now his henchmen are out to get them. The rest of the movie is about the cat and mouse game between the two with comedy and drama mixed in equal proportions.
A lot of hype was created in Pakistan around the casting of Pakistani model and actress Humaima Malik as the lead female character. It will be her first bollywood venture and people are waiting to see how it will go.
The name of the movie was changed from Shatir to Raja Natwarlal inspired by a 1979 movie Mr.Natwarlal. Amitabh Bachan was rumored to be a part of the movie but he dropped out in the end.Raja Natwarlal has been released in major cinemas across Pakistan which include Cinepax, Nueplex,Atrium and Cineplex cinemas.