Arjun Kapoor & Sonakshi Sinha in a Boney Kapoor movie!

Google guy's' Bolly debut

The Reunion ad maker has been signed to direct Sonakshi and Arjun in a South remake

Harshada Rege

Sonakshi Sinha and Arjun Kapoor will be seen together in Boney Kapoor's next home production. The film is being directed by Amit Sharma (in inset) who directed the Google ad film, titled Reunion, which became an overnight hit on the web. The ad-film which is captioned as partitions divide countries, friendships find a way', is one in a series of five videos and was viewed more than 1.6 million times before officially debuting on television on November 15.
Now Amit makes his debut as a director in a big budget Bollywood film. This is the Hindi remake of the Telugu hit, Okkadu (2003) meaning The Only One.
After working with older heroes like Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi is now consciously working with actors of her own age. She was seen in Lootera with Ranveer Singh and in her next R... Rajkumar, she has Shahid Kapoor paired opposite her.
Amit says, "I was approached for the movie before people saw the Google ad. I guess people, with whom I had worked, had spoken to Boney about me. He told me about the movie and things fell into place. He is a fantastic guy to work with. The movie will be co-produced by Sanjay Kapoor." The shooting for the movie, which is a love story, is expected to begin by January 2014. And though Amit didn't know Arjun or Sonakshi before the movie he has seen their work. "I have seen Arjun's Ishaqzaade and many of Sonakshi's films including Lootera. I am sure it'll be great fun working with them on this movie."
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