Dia Mirza signs Vidya Balan to play detective in Bobby Jasoos

Dia Mirza and her beau Sahil Sangha have signed Vidya Balan for their forthcoming feature Bobby Jasoos. To be produced under their banner Born Free Entertainment, Vidya will play India's first Lady Detective in the film. Exclaimed, Dia, "I'm thrilled to welcome Vidya into the Born Free family. The script of Bobby Jasoos bears testimony to the fact that being patient and investing in good stories usually reaps good dividends." Observed Sahil, "Bobby Jasoos is the first of three scripts that Born Free has been working on. ts energy is palpable and quite honestly has your attention from the word go. I'm confident that our next big announcement will follow soon given that our focus has been on developing pure and entertaining content that caters to a universal audience. " Quipped Vidya, "I found the idea of a lady detective irresistible as I did the title Bobby Jasoos. I've known Dia and Sahil for many years, they're lovely people and one can sense that this will be their shared labour of love. That's the kind of producers everyone hopes to have. The final clincher was the script by Sanyuktha Chawla and director Samar Shaikh, who I'm really looking forward to working with." The shooting of Bobby Jasoos starts mid-November this year and is scheduled for a summer 2014 release. The first project of Born Free Entertainment was Love, Breakups Zindagi in 2011.