Hichki

Hichki is a 2018 Indian Hindi drama film, directed by Siddharth P. Malhotra, written by Malhotra, Ankur Chaudhry, Ambar Hadap and Ganesh Pandit, and produced by Maneesh Sharma under the banner Yash Raj Films, with Aditya Chopra serving as presenter. An adaptation of Brad Cohen’s 2005 autobiography Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, which Yash Raj Films acquired the rights to, with Cohen himself also giving advice during the film’s production, the film stars Rani Mukerji in the lead role of an aspiring teacher having Tourette syndrome, who must prove herself by educating a group of underprivileged students.
Hichki was Mukerji’s first film after a four-year hiatus she took to focus to her family, and receiving praise for its trailer, launched on 19 December 2017, was theatrically released on 23 March 2018 to generally positive reviews from critics. With production on a limited budget of ₹12 crore (US$1.7 million), the film grossed ₹2.39 billion (US$34 million) worldwide, the majority of which came from China. The film became the eighth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2018.
Mukerji received her ninth Nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actress at the 64th Filmfare Awards. Hichki was also screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival on 16 June 2018.