Given the legal battle that preceded its release, the unlikely success of Parmanu: The Story Of Pokhran would have warranted a vacation for director Abhishek Sharma. But he is already neck-deep in work on his next — The Zoya Factor — based on Anuja Chauhan's bestselling novel by the same name. Featuring Dulquer Salman and Sonam K Ahuja, the film, Sharma informs, will go on floors in Mumbai by August end.

"I don't want to be known for a single genre, and this film takes me to a space I have not tried before. It's an amazing book. We locked the final script after nine drafts," says Sharma, who is happy to have "perfectionist" Chauhan at the helm of dialogue writing for the romance-comedy. When the book — that revolves around an advertising executive, Zoya Solanki, who tags along with the Indian cricket team to the World Cup because she is believed to be their lucky charm — was published in 2008, it was assumed that the male protagonist, Nikhil Khoda, was modelled on then-captain MS Dhoni.