The Italian Job Remake: filming with Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor

The Italian Job Remake: filming with Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor: Abbas Mustan's remake of the Hollywood crime thriller The Italian Job started filming in Goa today, November 8.

The film headlines Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol and Sonam Kapoor.

Sonam and Abhishek shared their excitement with their Twitter fans:

"In goa starting a new film.. Excited and nervous all over again.." Sonam tweeted yesterday evening.

"It's a new dawn, it's a new day and it's a new film!!! 1st day of shoot. Ok, I think I'll go faint now!! Nervous" Abhishek tweeted early morning today.

The film's unit was welcomed with stormy weather in the tourist hotspot, but the team was hard at work with the lead pair filming a dance sequence.

"Dancing with atjuniorbachchan both of us are trying to make our long limbs shake gracefully." Sonam tweeted in the afternoon.

The film additionally features Neil Nitin Mukesh, Omi Vaidya and Bipasha Basu.

It's an official adaptation of the 2003 heist film, The Italian Job, headlining Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron.

Abhishek Bachchan will play Mark Wahlberg's role and Sonam Kapoor - Charlize Theron's; Omi Vaidya will step into Seth Green's shoes and Bobby Deol into Jason Statham's; Neil plays the villain Steve's role, essayed in the original by Edward Norton.

The Studio 18 bank rolled film will be next shot in Russia and New Zealand.

The Italian Job remake: Bipasha Basu play leading role

The Italian Job remake: Bipasha Basu play leading role: Bipasha Basu’s wish to do an action role has been fulfilled. The lady has bagged a plum role in Abbas-Mastan’s Hindi remake of the 2003 Hollywood thriller ‘The Italian Job’.

Just recently, Bipasha had expressed her itching desire to do an action role after a spate of serious, character-based roles in her recent films. Well, the wish has been granted.

She will reportedly play a femme fatale in the movie titled Players which will be the official remake of The Italian Job.

From what we learn, the makers of the film saw the rushes of Rohan Sippy’s upcoming film Dum Maaro Dum which has Bipasha playing a Goan junkie.

Moreover, Bipasha’s spunky performance in Dhoom 2 was also in their mind.

Players will have Bipasha sharing screen space with actors like Abhishek Bachchan, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Bobby Deol.

It will be a full-on action film revolving around a heist, with loads of stunts, pyrotechnics and, needless to say, unexpected twists and turns in the plot.