'Hichki' was supposed to be male-centric: Sidharth P Malhotra

"Hichki" director Sidharth P Malhotra today revealed that the film, which stars Rani Mukerji in the lead, was initially supposed to be male centric.

The film, which released last Friday, featured the actor as a teacher with Tourette's Syndrome.

Sidharth said he was living and breathing the script for nearly five years before he narrated it to producer Aditya Chopra, Rani's husband.

Back then, Aditya was busy with his directorial "Befikre" and suggested he narrate the story to Maneesh Sharma.

The director said things changed when Maneesh came up with the idea of flipping the script around.

"Maneesh called me and said, 'What if we change the character to female? Because it was always a male centric film, never female centric'. For five years, I was looking for heroes in my mind. At that point I was like, 'Where did the heroine (angle) come from?'