Hero is Indian romantic action film directed by Nikhil Advani and co-written with Umesh Bist, a remake of Subhash Ghai's directed 1983 film of the same name, which starred Jackie Shroff. This is the first films for Sooraj Pancholi, son of Aditya Pancholi, and for Athiya Shetty, the daughter of Suniel Shetty.