Bollywood actor Genelia Deshmukh, who had taken a hiatus from films after marriage, is all set to return on the silver screen with her first Marathi debut film ‘Ved’.

Interestingly, Genelia’s husband actor-producer Riteish Deshmukh also makes his directorial debut with this film.

On Thursday, the actor took to social media to announce his directorial debut, which also marks his wife Genelia Deshmukh foray into Marathi Cinema.

Sharing the poster of the movie, Riteish wrote, “After being in front of the camera for 20 years, I tell a big leap to stand behind it for the first time. As I direct my first Marathi film, I humbly ask you all for your good wishes and blessings. Be a part of this journey, be a part of this madness.”

Besides her, the film also stars actor Jiya Shankar, ANI reported from Mumbai.

Whereas, Genelia who returns to acting after 10 years also shared a series of posts on Instagram expressing her excitement for the film.

Genelia said, “Have been blessed to be part of movies in so many languages and receive love and respect from all. Being born in Maharashtra, my heart yearned to do a film in Marathi for years and was hoping there would be a script where I could just say this is it. And then this happened.”

“Coming back to acting after 10 long years and being part of a dream where my husband Riteish Deshmukh directs for the first time and I get to share space with a beautiful co-actor Jiya Shankar who gets introduced under our production house MFC,” the actor who has acted with Deshmukh in ‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’, ‘Masti’ and ‘Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya’, Genelia added.