/> It's currently very hush-hush ...and rush-rush.Warner Brothers first Bollywood film Made In China, with Ramesh and Rohan Sippy of Sholay-Bluff Master fame serving as the Indian producers, will start shooting in China from January 2008.

Shanghai, Beijing and a village near Beijing are the locations selected for India's first film to be shot in China.

Even more unique is the maritial arts discipline selected to make the actioner look virgin-virile.

Akshay Kumar who hasn't done a full-on action film in seven years, is currently joined at the 'hype' with his lissome co-star Deepika Padukone to train in a subtle strain of martial arts known as Wushu whose chief practitioner on the large screen so far have been Jackie Chan and Jet Lee.

Akshay Kumar has always idolized Jackie Chan and has to an extent, modeled his career on his Chinese peer. In Made In China he gets to do a full-on homage to his idol.

"Akshay has been a martial arts student for years," director Nikhil Advani tied down by contract, says reluctantly. "The Wushu style is very big in China. Jet Li and Jackie Chan constantly practice it."

Deepika Padukone is an athelete's daughter and has played badminton for several years on the national level.

She's currently undergoing rigorous training in Wushu.

Apparently the script was written with Akshay Kumar in mind.

Says Advani, "My writer Sridhar Raghavan and my Indian producer Rohan Sippy designed the film with Akshay in mind. It was either Akshay or no one else for the role.

We needed a lead pair who could do the action scenes with the grace of dancers. Both Deepika and Akshay are phenomenal dancers and athletes."

Made In China will be shot at a stretch in six months from January to May 2008 in China.

Akshay and Deepika will be in China for almost six months at a stretch with their respective families coming in and out of the country.