To play an illusionist

Bobby Deol has agreed to star in Abbas-Mustan's remake of The Italian Job. The film also stars Abhishek Bachchan, Omi Vaidya and Neil Nitin Mukesh in principal roles.

The director duo had been trying to cast the right actor for the fouth parallel role for quite some time now, and they finally zeroed in on Bobby. The young Deol will play an illusionist in the film.

This will be Bobby's fifth film with the director duo after Soldier, Ajnabee, Hamraaz and Naqaab and the second film with Abhishek Bachchan after Dostana.

Recently, Katrina Kaif walked out of the project citing date issues.