Reportedly, Shirish Kunder, the director of 'Joker', is high on spirits with this new project, and has finalised the lead cast of the film.

Apart from Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha, 'Joker' now also features Shreyas Talpade and Minissha Lamba as lead. Darshan Jariwala will be seen enacting Akki’s father in the film.

Shirish updating on ‘Joker’ through Twitter
This ‘Jaan-E-Mann’ famed director, who also wants to make a film on dance, is keeping all his fans updated by tweeting all the latest happenings of ‘Joker’ on the micro-blogging site, Twitter.

Post the finalisations, Shirish tweeted, “Minissha Lamba has been cast as the heroine opposite Shreyas Talpade in JOKER.”

The director also wrote that the very first schedule of the 3D film, ‘Joker’, will be held in Chandigarh and not Ludhiana.

Minissha Lamba elated about ‘Joker’
Minissha Lamba, who was last seen in ‘Well Done Abba’, is ecstatic about this new project and expressed her happiness on Twitter.

She tweeted, “Gonna start filming a new movie soon..Shirish Kunder's 'Joker'. It's a blessing to work with people whose work one has admired.”

Commenting on zeroing in the 26-year-old actress in ‘Joker’, Shirish said, “I wanted someone who looks sweet and innocent. There had to be purity about her face and body language and this is what I got in Minissha."

Akshay Kumar in ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2’?
After his last two outings bombed at the box-office, tinsel town’s ‘Tees Maar Khan’ seems to have become more serious in choosing films.

The actor, who once quoted 27 crore to portray underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Ekta Kapoor’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2’, has now lowered the price in order to save his declining career in the industry.

If everything goes as planned, then Akshay Kumar will soon be seen stepping into Emraan Hashmi’s shoes in the sequel to ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai’.