John Abraham, Emraan Hashmi to team up for Sanjay Gupta's upcoming gangster drama

John Abraham and Emraan Hashmi have been roped in to star in Sanjay Gupta’s yet-untitled gangster drama. The filmmaker, who has helmed Amitabh Bachchan-Sanjay Dutt’s action thriller Kaante and produced Shootout at Lokhandwalla and Shootout at Wadala, will return to the gangster genre with the forthcoming film after six years. [caption id=“attachment_6790391” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] John Abraham and Emraan Hashmi. Facebook/@TheRealJohnAbraham, @EmraanHashmi[/caption] Confirming the news, Sanjay said in a statement quoted by News18, “It’s my third outing with John and I am super excited to work with Emraan as I have always wanted to work with him. I am back to my base of filmmaking, which are gangster dramas.  All I can say is, it’s good to be home.” As reported earlier , the film will be set in 1980-90s and will revolve around the events that were instrumental in Bombay turning into Mumbai. It will showcase the shutdown of iconic textile mills, the murder of a noted businessman, how the nexus between politicians, cops, the underworld and the business fraternity changed the city’s landscape. A source informed Mumbai Mirror that the film will be a cat-and-mouse chase where one actor will play a cop, and the other a gangster. The shooting will begin in July, and will be wrapped in this year’s end. The filmmaker’s last directorial outing was the revenge-drama  Kaabil  (2017), starring Hrithik Roshan and Yami Gautam in the lead.