The grapevine suggests that John’s character will be modeled on gangster Abu Salem in the movie. John and Sanjay have previously collaborated on five films – Zinda, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Shootout at Wadala and an unnamed movie still under production. This will be Aishwarya’s first film with both director and co-star.
This may have been the second film that Aishwarya and John co-starred in, if Sriram Raghavan’s Happy Birthday – in which both actors had been cast – hadn’t been shelved.
Here’s hoping that some jiggery-pokery magic works for John and Ash in Jazbaa, just as it did for John and Abhishek in Dostana.