/> The much talked-about Vidya Balan-Emraan Hashmi comedy has been preponed by a month. The shooting which was supposed to start in September now starts at the beginning of August, and with very good reason.

The director wants to capture his Dirty Picture jodi in the rains.

Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan are all set to recreate thae long-forgotten feeling of romancing Mumbai in the monsoon in Rajkumar Gupta's Ghanchakkar.

And to think that the director's desire to drench his star pair in the monoon rains almost didn't happen.

Emraan had vetoed director Rajkumar Gupta's original August shooting for Ghanchakkar because of time constraints, thereby ostensibly killing the proposed monsoonal romance with Vidya.

However a very lucky circumstance overrode Emraan's schedule.

Over to the director Rajkumar Gupta, "I had originally planned an August schedule. And Vidya who is at the moment doing no other film was completely one with my film's schedule.

But Emraan was busy promoting Raaz 3 in August as the film was supposed to release at the end of August. But now I believe Raaz 3 has been pushed forward, so I got the window to shoot the scenes that I wanted. I guess I am just lucky. "



The idea is to shoot Vidya and Emraan on the rain-soaked streets of Mumbai with secret cameras.

That's how Gupta had shot Rajeev Khandelwal in Aamir. But to shoot two popular superstars like Vidya and Emraan with hidden cameras requires herculian amounts of courage.

Laughs Gupta, "I agree. But both are used to shooting in the crowded outdoors. If Vidya could brave the Kolkata crowds in Kahaani and the Delhi junta in my film No One Killed Jessica then Mumbai would be a cakewalk in comparison. The important thing is, God has been generous. Thanks to Emraan's reshuffled appointment diary I am able to shoot as and when I had originally planned.

Two male actors from theatre are being finalized.

Informs Gupta, "We are looking at new faces from theatre and from other sources. We've auditioned dozens. With Vidya and Emraan in the cast I need untried talent to balance off their huge stardom. Besides Emraan and Vidya there are two major characters, both male, plus dozens of supporting parts. "

Gupta hopes to wrap up the entire shooting by December. The film releases in the first quarter. "We haven't got a release date as yet. But I am hoping it would be the 8th of any month in the first quarter of 2013. You see, my first film Aamir released on the 6th and my second film No One Killed Jessica released on the 7th. "

And would there be a profusion of romantic songs in Amit Trivedi's soundtrack?

"Wait and see, what Vidya and Emraan do in Ghanchakkar would be very different from what they did in The Dirty Picture. "