Ram Gopal Varma is back in gangster territory, and this time he's handed the camera to someone else.

A day after announcing the project on X, RGV followed up on Monday with the actual premise. The story, he wrote, is set during the period when Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Rajan went their separate ways, a split he says was triggered by a man called Sautya. From there, per RGV's post, the narrative moves into how Indian intelligence agencies got involved, feeding into what he called the aftermath of the 1993 serial blasts.

RGV has written the script and is co-producing. Mohit Suri, fresh off Saiyaara, directs. That's an unusual pairing on paper. One built his name on Satya and Company, stripped-down, procedural crime cinema. The other is Bollywood's reigning heartbreak specialist, all sweeping music and doomed romance. RGV seems to think that's the point.

In his tweet he said Suri brought "a tremendous flair of his own brand of 'from the heart characters, superlative emotional music and never before thought of ultra realistic action.'" He went further, invoking Hollywood to make his case, wondering aloud what it might have looked like if Francis Ford Coppola had directed Jaws, or Steven Spielberg had taken on The Godfather. Mismatched genius, in other words, producing something neither man could have made alone.

The comparisons didn't stop there. RGV wrote that he believes Suri's film "will be much larger in scale than Dhurandhar, and much more rooted than Satya in its heart." That's two big swings in one line, Aditya Dhar's recent hit invoked for scale, RGV's own 1998 landmark invoked for emotional grounding. Whether the finished film gets anywhere near either is a separate question, but it tells you how RGV is pitching this to trade circles and fans alike.

What's missing so far is almost everything else. No title, no cast, no production banner beyond RGV's own involvement, no shooting schedule. RGV signed off his announcement post promising details would be "served very very soon," which suggests a formal rollout, cast reveal and possibly a producer announcement, isn't far behind.

The underworld drama has been a reliable well for Hindi cinema this year, and a script tied to the Dawood-Rajan split gives this one a specific, verifiable historical spine rather than a generic don story. Whether Suri can bend his sensibility around that history without softening it into melodrama is exactly the tension RGV seems to be selling. The next thing to watch for is who gets cast, and how soon.