Vishal Chaturvedi isn't waiting around after Hanuman Ansh. The writer-director and Mahaveer Jain Films announced on Sunday that his next film is RamBola, based on the life of Goswami Tulsidas, one of the most revered poets in the Bharatiya literary tradition and the man credited with the Ramcharitmanas.

Chaturvedi will write and direct RamBola himself. The film is being produced by Mahaveer Jain, Chaturvedi, Amit Upadhyay and Raghuvendra Singh, and presented under the Mahaveer Jain Films banner. No cast has been named yet, and there's no release date on the table. What we do have is a title and a filmmaker whose last outing needs no introduction anymore.

From Neeb Karori Baba to Tulsidas

Hanuman Ansh, Chaturvedi's telling of the story of Shri Neeb Karori Baba, turned into one of the bigger box office stories of the year. Filmfare has called it one of the biggest success stories in Indian film history, and with RamBola, Chaturvedi is staying in the same lane, moving from a modern spiritual figure to a medieval one whose devotional poetry still shapes how a large chunk of the country understands the Ramayana.

It's a deliberate pattern. The makers, per Filmfare's report, describe RamBola as chronicling a saint's journey of devotion and transformation, language that echoes exactly what Hanuman Ansh was sold on. If the connection wasn't obvious from the credits, it's obvious from the pitch.

Mahaveer Jain Films is building a slate, fast

RamBola isn't the only thing on Mahaveer Jain Films' plate right now. The banner already has Mrigdeep Singh Lamba's Naagzilla with Kartik Aaryan in production, Sooraj Barjatya's Yeh Prem Mol Liya starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Sharvari, and White, a Vikrant Massey film said to be inspired by an event involving the spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

That's four announced titles moving at once, three of them touching some version of faith, devotion or spiritual biography. Whether that's a conscious brand for the studio or just how the projects happened to line up, the pattern is hard to miss once you put the slate side by side.

For Chaturvedi, the bigger test is whether RamBola can do what Hanuman Ansh did without repeating it. A film about a 16th-century poet-saint is a different proposition from a contemporary guru's story, and Tulsidas's life has been told and retold across mediums for generations. There's no shortage of material. There is, going by what's been announced so far, a shortage of specifics. No lead actor, no shoot date, no scale of budget disclosed by either the studio or the director.

That detail will presumably come in the weeks ahead, likely once casting is locked. Until then, RamBola exists as a title, a subject and a director riding one of the year's bigger box office waves into his next big swing.