Gautham Menon’s Gharshana will be remade in Hindi by producer Vipul Shah. John Abraham will play the lead role in this Venkatesh starrer. And the good news for southern fans is that our own Asin will once again play the female lead in the Hindi version.

John Abraham has already started building his muscles to match the demands of the encounter specialist character. For Asin, school teacher role will be a cake walk as she has already done it in the Telugu version.

Vipul's first choice for Asin’s role was Genelia D'Souza, but she is already doing a film opposite John Abraham. Therefore he decided to go for Asin, who worked with him, in the not-so-hit movie ‘London Dreams’.

This film will be directed by ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’ director Nishikant Kamath as Gautham Menon decided not to repeat his act third time. Gautam had already done the Telugu and Tamil versions. The shooting for the Hindi remake is expected to start in May.

Garshana is a cult classic in which artistes and technicians excelled in every department. It was a film complete in almost all respects. Will the Hindi version repeat the same magic? A great challenge for Nishikant Kamath.