Bipasha Basu has signed Abbas-Mastan's remake of The Italian Job (now titled Players) starring Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol and Neil Nitin Mukesh.

Says an insider, "After seeing her sizzling avatar in Rohan Sippy's Dum Maro Dum, the directors and the producers decided to sign her. Her character is sexy and deadly.

She won't just be a scantily clad pretty face but an intelligent character who is part of the team."

The mega budget film starts its first schedule in the first week of November in Goa. It will then travel to New Zealand and next year, to Russia.