Jennifer Lynch is to direct Bollywood thriller Nagin - The Snake Woman, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie, which will be filmed simultaneously in Hindi and English, revolves around the Eastern myth of the snake woman who has the ability to take on multiple forms.

Mallika Sherawat is attached to play the title role, with Irrfan Khan as a policeman who must destroy her powers.

Lynch, the daughter of filmmaker David Lynch, previously directed upcoming movie Surveillance and 1993's Boxing Helena.

She also wrote novel The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer, based on her father's cult series Twin Peaks.