The film will be Shimit's next with Yash Raj Films after his immensely successful and acclaimed Chak De India.
For quiet a long time both Imran and Ranbir wanted to be cast together and had been dropping such hints in their various interviews to the media.
They also got on well with each other and had been searching for scripts and directors who would take them on both.
It is learnt that since the past few months the duo had been meeting up big Bollywood filmmakers such as Subhash Ghai, Mukesh and Mahesh Bhatt, Vipul Shah as well as their own respective directors that they have worked with for doing a film starring them together but they were not meeting with a favourable response, perhaps because of the on going recession. But finally Yash Raj has managed to get them together.