That’s the number of films that Sunil Shetty and Ekta Kapoor are planning on together Sunil Shetty and Ekta Kapoor Raaste starring Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham is finally happening. Aditya Chopra’s cousin Vicky Singh will direct the film, which Sunil Shetty and Ekta Kapoor are co-producing. Shooting begins in 2008. EMI Liya Hai To Chukana Padega is the first of the many feature films that Sunil Shetty and Ekta Kapoor are co-producing. The film in progress right now is expected to be hindered due to Sanjay Dutt’s arrest yesterday. New combos Says a source from Popkorn. “There’re going to be many more permutations and combinations in the Sunil Shetty-Sanjay Dutt-Ekta Kapoor-Sanjay Gupta axis.  After EMI which is about the recovery of bank loans, Popcorn and Balaji go into Mission Istanbul which is being shot in Turkey in collaboration with the Turkish government.” Special appearance Mission Istanbul stars Sunil Shetty (breaking his unwritten rule  of not acting in self-produced films), Vivek Oberoi, Zayed Khan, character-actor Pankaj Dheer’s son Nikitan and  Shreya Saran. “Abhishek Bachchan is making a special appearance in Mission Istanbul,” says  Popcorn’s  well-placed source.  “And the film is introducing the Nivea girl Miss India Shweta Bhardwaj.”  The effort for the Balaji-Popkorn alliance is to create a hotbed of new talent. Says Sunil, “I do want to bring in new talent.  Saurabh Kabra who directs EMI is outstanding. So is Joy Augustine who’s doing a film on the Mumbai train blasts Little Godfather with children in the cast. Apoorva Lakhia may have been disgraced at his earlier place of work. But these all  according to me are unique talents.” Sunil and Ekta’s production companies have decided  to collaborate on as many as 18-20 feature films. “It could be  more,” says Sunil. “My comfort level with Ekta’s entrepreneurship is unlimited. And I presume she’s as comfortable with me as I’m with her. So we’re tying up for as many films as we both want to.”  The fiesta of films bringing together Sunil’s Popkorn Motion Pictures Pvt  Ltd and Ekta’s Balaji Motion Pictures  is expected to stretch at least  into the next decade. Says Ekta,  “I love Sunil’s style of working. Very above-board decent and clean. Yeah we plan to work on unlimited projects.”