Emraan Hashmi and Abhay Deol have teamed up for 'Shanghai'. No, not for a holiday, the actors are working together in Dibaker Banerjee's film 'Shanghai'. The film is a political drama which was written by keeping Imran Khan in mind but Khan reportedly said no for the film. The film is an official Hindi adaptation of the political thriller that the Greek novelist Vassilis Vassilikos wrote about the real-life assassination of a dynamic politician Dibaker's next choice was his favourite Abhay Deol with whom he made 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye', but he did have to change his naïve character to a more mature one. Dibaker claims that the film will take Abhay's career to a new level of stardom. It is also reported that Katrina Kaif was initially offered to play the female lead in the film which has now landed in Sonam Kapoor's kitty.