The movie is a remake of Malayalam film &#39;Pokkiri Raja&#39; and will be directed by Anthony D&#39;Souza, who worked with Akshay in &quot;Blue&quot;. The 2010 Malayalam film featured Mammooty, Prithviraj and Shriya Sharan in the lead. <img alt="Akshay Kumar" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/feb/Akshay.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 466px; " /> The Hindi version, either to be titled &quot;Naam Hai Boss&quot; or &quot;Boss&quot; will see Akshay stepping into the shoes of Mammooty. &quot;It is for the first time that there will be no heroine opposite Akshay Kumar in the film. He is playing the role of Mammooty. But there will be two young newcomers - one hero and heroine,&quot; sources close to the project told PTI. Actor Mithun Chakraborty has also been roped in for the project, sources added.u00a0 The writers of the Hindi version, Sajid-Farhad, are excited about the the project. &quot;We are writing the screenplay and dialogues for this film. The basic plot... soul of this movie remains more or less same.u00a0But we will definitely make a lot of changes considering the presence of Akshay and the audience,&quot; Sajid-Farhad said. The shooting of the film will commence this month or September and it will release next year.u00a0

For the first time in his 21-year-old acting career, actor Akshay Kumar will have no leading lady to romance on screen in his upcoming film, a south remake

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