Director Vivek Agnihotri, who recently made a name with an erotic thriller Hate Story that starred the hot Paoli Dam, has shown his keenness to work with Ajay Devgn in a satire on land acquisition titled <em>Awwal</em>. "I want to work with Ajay Devgn for <em>Awwal</em> and feel he will be suitable for the film because he can seriously carry a comic role," quipped Agnihotri talking to <em>Tellychakkar.com</em> without discussing much into the storyline. The film is scheduled to go on the floors next year (2014).

Getting out of his comfort zone of erotic-horror Vikram Bhatt is all set to rip open and expose the fatal flaws in the medical profession. His next film, tentatively titled The Ankur Arora Medical Case which goes on the floors post-monsoon would take up the very urgent and disturbing issue of death during surgery. Inspired by a real-life case of a well-to-do entrepreneur’s sudden demise while being operated on, the film will take story from the operation theatre to the courtroom as an eminent surgeon played by K K Menon will be put on the dock and tried for murder.

So what about your image of a bold girl back in Kolkata? “I don’t know what you mean by bold, for most of my roles back home, be it Kaalbela (directed by Gautam Ghosh) or Sob Charitro Kalponik (Rituparno Ghosh) have been of traditional Bengali woman with substance or back bone, so if you mean that by bold, so be it.” But in Mumbai bold means skin show. “Yes there was lot of it in Hate Stories, we always called it a bold film. But that explicitness was part of the story’s concept.