Ram Gopal Varma has announced a new directorial titled 'Virus'. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, the 'Officer' director said that the same will be produced by Parag Sanghvi of 'Sarkar' fame.

"The film is going to be about an outbreak in Mumbai of a highly contagious unknown disease more dangerous than Ebola with a fatality rate of 100%. In the last 40 years, at least 10 new unknown dangerous viruses have cropped up, which means any new disease can crop up anytime," the producer says.

"RGV's extensively researched story is fictional. However, it's a chilling portrayal of a very real and horrific possibility. Cast and other details will be announced soon," he adds.

Talking about his film, RGV says, "In my film, a student contracts a deadly disease from a visit to central Africa and soon it spreads like a wildfire in Mumbai. A panicky and totally unprepared government warns the people of Mumbai to maintain a distance of at least 20 feet from each other which becomes impossible in a 2 crore populated city."

"The death toll soon rises to more than a lakh and the government cuts off Mumbai from the rest of the country in a desperate hope to contain it in Mumbai. The uninfected try to flee the city out of panic, but the administrators give extreme orders to shoot anyone who tries to escape because they want to stop the spread and do not know who’s infected and who’s not.

Against this backdrop of a battle between the city’s scared people and its helpless administrators, 'Virus' will be a high octane human drama full of fear, tragedy, love, sacrifice, hope and desperation," RGV writes.