Last week, we had a Bollywood star kid, Janhvi Kapoor, making her debut with Dhadak (Ishaan Khatter had already made his debut earlier this year with Beyond The Clouds). But the year is not yet done with star debutantes, we are yet to have the glimpses of the acting potential of Karan Deol (Sunny Deol's son), Ananya Panday (Chunky Pandey's daughter), Sara Ali Khan (Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh's daughter) and so on. But, before them all arrives Utkarsh Sharma, the son of director Anil Sharma, known for making movies like Gadar: Ek Prem Katha and Veer. He is making his debut with Genius that is directed by his father.

The trailer of Genius is out, and it is like a launchpad that every star son might get from their director father. Genius is like that checklist for a star-debutante that he should do in his first film - woo a girl, kick some ass, dance like a dream and make some smart dialogues. The concept might seem too '90s and the trailer doesn't help much to change this perception. There is Ishita Chauhan who is like the PYT you need in such movies, and we don't really find her outside the romantic aspect of the film. Finally, there are the veterans Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Mithun Chakraborty, who shoulder the histrionics department. Nawaz looks like he is back on the sets of Kick.

Check out the trailer of Genius right here -

Earlier in an interview with PTI, Anil Sharma had this to say about launching his son, “I was scripting only for him. Utkarsh as a person is very sincere at everything and has a lot of potential. I thought he can deliver. Utkarsh has all the qualities of a good actor. It was he who told us that how passionately he wants to pursue films. When he was in the US and studying film-making I worked on the script. Utkarsh thought it’s too early for him but then I said, ‘We have to do it right now’.”

Produced by Anil Sharma Productions & Soham RockStar Entertainment, Genius is scheduled to release on August 24. So are you excited about the movie? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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