Karan Johar’s love-hate story to star Emraan Hashmi in the lead

Karan Johar is known to create on-screen magic and is currently drawing up plans for his future projects. A few months ago, Karan released his fifth directorial venture, Student of the Year. The film, as expected, was successful at the box office and launched into the galaxy of stars three debutants, Siddharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. For his upcoming project, Karan Johar has teamed up with Balaji Telefilms’ Ekta Kapoor. The film will include actor Emraan Hashmi who has had a string of hit films including Once Upon A Time in Mumbai, Murder 2, The Dirty Picture and Jannat 2.

"Emraan is doing a film for us, Rensil is directing it. And we are also talking to Emraan for another project. I have great amount of respect and regard for him and his talent and the way he strategies his career. He is very talented actor. It is never late, there is always a right time," said Karan Johar a while ago. The director has showered the talented young actor with praise, calling him a terrific actor with a note-worthy fan-base.

"I always liked him from before. I liked him in Once Upon A Time in Mumbai, The Dirty Picture, I think he really suited the role so well. For this film (untitled) the script suited him... it is different for him and yet it suited him tremendously. I am really very excited about it," added Karan Johar.

Speaking about the film’s genre, Karan added “. I'd call it a love-hate story. In fact, it is one of the most interesting scripts I've read in recent times. Both the protagonists are strong characters and have a great opportunity to perform."