Updated on Monday, December 29, 2008, 00:00 IST

Spicezee Bureau

Mumbai, Dec 28: Ajay Devgan, the action hero of yore, has decided to excavate that image again. He has also decided to do it with adequate company. The original muscle-man of Bollywood Sanjay Dutt is to complement him in an upcoming action-comedy movie.

Devgan is producing this action-comedy after the success of romantic ‘U Me aur Hum’ in 2006. The flick in question is to roll out in March next year. Rohit Shetty, long-time friend and veteran of Bollywood, is to direct the movie. Fardeen Khan will also make a much-due appearance through this flick.

Rohit said about the flick, “I'm putting together a far more sensible and far less slapstick comedy for Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgan. The project was finalised in two weeks. The script was ready for a while and when I narrated it to Ajay, he immediately wanted to produce it. He met Sanjay, who also liked the film.”

Devgan was eager to handle the production and action-comedy session with long-time friend Rohit. “Rohit and I go back 17 years. He was an assistant on my first film ‘Phool Aur Kaante’,” he said while talking to a news daily.

Talking further about the flick, Rohit added, "I want to cast Sanjay and Ajay in an action-comedy. I've always been a fan of Hrishida's comedies. So when I wrote this script, it was meant to provide a maturer flavour of laughter. In ‘Golmaal’, I could get away with a lot of slapstick humour. But when I'm directing Dutt and Devgan, audiences expect a lot less buffoonery."

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