Last seen in the Robby Grewal directed Romeo Akbar Walter, John Abraham has been on a roll lately signing one movie after another. Apart from Nikkhil Advani’s Batla House, Milap Zaveri’s Satyamev Jayate 2 and Anees Bazmee’s Pagalpanti, the actor has given his green signal to another project. The 46 year old star will be essaying the role of Tamil superstar Ajith Kumar in the Hindi remake of 2015 Tamil film Vedalam.

 

The yet to be titled film will be produced by Bhushan Kumar and a director is still to be finalized along with a final script. The story of the original revolves around a cab driver on the look out for three notorious criminals. A Bengali version of Vedalam was also made in 2018 which starred Jeet, Priyanka Sarkar and Bidya Sinha Mim.