Photograph:
Kind
courtesy
John
Abraham/Instagram
Will
John
Abraham
play
former
Mumbai
top
cop
Rakesh
Maria
in
his
next
movie?
According
to
a
report
in
the
Mid-Day
newspaper,
Rohit
Shetty’s
next
directorial
will
be
based
on
Rakesh
Maria’s
autobiography,
Let
Me
Say
It
Now,
and
John
will
essay
the
central
role.
The
film
will
go
on
the
floors
in
March,
and
the
shooting
will
be
completed
in
45
days.
Rohit
Shetty
with
Rakesh
Maria.
Photograph:
Kind
courtesy
Rohit
Shetty/Instagram
In
his
long
career,
Maria
cracked
many
high
profile
cases
like
the
1993
serial
bomb
blasts
and
the
26/11
terror
attack
in
Mumbai.
Maria
is
also
credited
to
solving
the
blasts
at
Zaveri
Bazaar
and
the
Gateway
of
India
in
2003,
in
which
54
people
were
killed
and
184
were
injured.
Maria
came
under
the
scanner
in
the
way
he
handled
the
Sheena
Bora
murder
case
as
police
commissioner.
He
was
abruptly
transferred
during
the
investigation
to
an
insignificant
posting
before
his
retirement
in
January
2017.
John
has
played
a
cop
in
many
movies,
to
varying
success.
With
this
Rohit
Shetty
takes
a
break
from
his
fictional
cop
universe
to
make
a
cop
movie
based
on
a
real
person.
This
will
be
Rohit
and
John’s
first
outing
together.
Will
John
make
a
good
Rakesh
Maria?
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