The director, while speaking to Deccan Chronicle disclosed that they haven't chose Manto star at first, "Once we cast Irran, we were looking for the female lead. It wasn’t like that we jumped to Saba as a default option. We had considered other actresses here, but there were issues. When I approached actresses for Shaadi Ke Side Effects, it was a struggle for us to find someone who was willing to play a mother on screen. So I knew it that there was an issue already here."

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The flawless skills of Saba Qamar caught his attention as he mentioned,"We tried to think of whom we could cast and that’s when I saw Saba in a couple of Pakistani television shows. I knew she would fit the bill of a next-door Punjabi girl and decided to take her on board. The equation between the countries was much better back then.”

The first trailer of Hindu Medium was out recently and the chemistry between this duo made us waiting for the film to be released already.