Mumbai Director Apoorva Lakhia has put the failure of his last release "Ek Ajnabee" behind him and is moving on with "Encounter At Lokhandwala", a thriller he describes as a "guys' film".

"It will be a guys' film. So far we haven't found 'no' positions for the girls. There will be couple of girls. But no songs!"

The film, to be produced by Sanjay Gupta, stars Sanjay Dutt (who he says bought them together), Arjun Rampal, Javed Jaffrey and Viveik Oberoi.

"Sanjay Gupta and I want to give it the feeling of a fast-moving docu-feature like Oliver Stone's 'JFK'. The editing would be pretty quick, though not in-your-face like 'Ek Ajnabee' so that the normal junta can take in what is going on," Lakhia told.

It is going on floors on Aug 1 and Lakhia wants to keep it as factual as possible.

"Lots of stuff happened and we have to shoot it as realistically as possible. Since I am a stickler for details, I'll have to recreate 1989. The police uniforms, their gadgets and ammunition have all changed.

"In terms of characterisation I'd like my film to be like 'Crash'. I want every actor to have a well-defined role," said Lakhia, who recently shot a music video for a Durban-based pop singer called Tarina Patel in Mauritius.