It's action for Sid, Jackie in SoBo

The second instalment of the Bang Bang frachise kicks off today followed by sequences in Miami and Malaysia.

Sidharth Malhotra, with his Lochinvar locks, well groomed after a visit to a celebrity salon in Bandra, and a leggy Jacqueline Fernandez, will kick off director duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK's second instalment in the Bang Bang franchise in SoBo today at 7 am. During the course of this eight-day schedule, the unit will be filming across the city.

"All the Mumbai sequences will be outdoors. After this, they take off to Miami for a month-long schedule," reveals a source close to the development, adding that the makers are clear that the film will not be titled Bang Bang 2 since it is not a sequel to the 2014 action-romance featuring Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif. "No title has been locked yet, they are keeping their options open."

Last month, both Sid and Jackie wrapped up their respective films, Nitya Mehra's Baar Baar Dekho and Rohit Dhawan's Dishoom. While the original was an Indianised adaptation of the Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz-starrer, Knight and Day, the second instalment has been written by Raj-DK themselves. In an interview to Mirror (April 11), Sidharth had admitted to looking forward to teaming up with Jackie again. "Earlier in Brothers, she was paired with Akshay (Kumar) but brought a certain vibe and energy to the sets. She was always cracking jokes and we would talk about fitness," he had reminisced.

The earlier film had some heavy-duty chase sequences designed by Hollywood action director Andy Armstrong who has the mind-boggling gravity-defying stunts of films like Charlie's Angels, Thor, Planet of the Apes and The Amazing Spiderman 2 to his credit. After returning from a brain surgery, Hrithik left everyone awestruck jumping off the rooftops in Shimla on the very first day of the shoot. He then learnt to jetski for a stunt filmed in a lake in Prague which had him on water skies being pulled along by a sky plane.

During the Miami schedule, lots of action sequences in the sea will be picturised on Sidharth and Jackie with a large team of Hollywood stuntmen and action directors. Fly-boarding and hover-boarding, which involve rising above the water to pull off innovative stunts in the water wearing a jetpack, are on the agenda.

The film will be shot abroad from June to December and is scheduled to release in 2017. "After Miami, the unit will return to Mumbai before heading to Malaysia for the final schedule. All the travel paperwork and schedules have been locked," adds the source.