After a successful outing with Balaji’s ‘The Dirty Picture’, Emraan Hashmi has joined hands with UTV Motion Pictures for his next. The banner has signed the distinct actor for the first time for ‘Ghanchakkar’.

The film will be directed by Rajkumar Gupta, who is back after his power themed film ‘No One Killed Jessica’. For Gupta, this will be the third film under UTV after ‘Aamir’ and ‘No One Killed Jessica’.

Siddharth Roy Kapur (CEO of UTV Motion Pictures) who is thrilled on being associated with the critically acclaimed filmmaker again, is also excited to work with Emraan for the first time. “Emraan is one of the most bankable stars in recent times and just the perfect lead casting for this film,” stated Kapur.

According to our reports, in ‘Ghanchakkar’ Emraan plays the title character - a suave safe-cracker who likes the finer things in life. He decides to pull off one last heist which leads to unexpected confusion and chaos. The question is does he get out of it without losing it and who is conning who? Is Ghanchakkar really Ghanchakkar?

“Ghanchakkar is a quasi-realistic urban comedy/thriller highlighting the absurdity of certain real human situations,” revealed Gupta.

‘Ghanchakkar’ is written by Pervez Shaikh and Raj Kumar Gupta while Amit Trivedi (‘Aamir’, ‘Dev D’ and ‘Udaan’) will compose the music.

On the other hand Emraan is feeling great to be working UTV and Rajkumar Gupta and talking about the project, he said, “Ghanchakkar is one of the best scripts I've heard in recent times. Commercial, edgy and very entertaining I am sure this ones going to be a landmark film in my career.”

While Gupta added, “Very excited to have Emraan on board and glad to be taking forward my association with Ronnie and his amazing team at UTV after Aamir and No one killed Jessica. We made the audience cry in Aamir and No one killed Jessica and with Ghanchakkar we’re going to make them laugh.