In the last month, we gave you the report of Dostana and Dhoom duo, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham reuniting for the remake of Malayalam hit Ayyapanum Koshiyum, which featured Prithviraj and Biju Menon in lead roles. While film is expected to go on floors in July, the latest report suggests that filmmaker Jagan Shakti, who is known for helming Akshay Kumar's Mission Mangal has come on board to direct this venture. In fact, he has already started his work on the script and pre-production of this adaptation.
A source close to the development, told PinkVilla,"Jagan is a fan of the original film and when he was approached to come on board as director of the Hindi remake, he jumped onto the opportunity. All this while, he was working on the prep work of the Akshay Kumar fronted, Mission Lion, but the same has been delayed for some reason, which gave Jagan the bandwidth to go ahead with the Ayyappanum Koshiyum remake. He is all charged up to take the film on floors around the month of July with the two leads."
The source also revealed that while Abhishek Bachchan will step into the shoes of Prithviraj, John Abraham will play Biju Menon's character. The makers will add some inputs to give it a pan-India appeal. "It's going to be an exciting face off. Some tweaking has been made keeping the Hindi sensibilities in mind with respect to story telling style and the run time, but rest, it's a perfect idea to bring John and Abhishek together. Even the idea behind the casting was to do an anti-thesis of what's already done in Dostana," added the source.
The original film was directed by Sachy and produced by Ranjith and P. M. Sasidharan under the company Gold Coin Motion Picture Company.
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