A month ago, the buzz in B-town was that Abhishek Kapoor finally had a project at hand. But he did take a good four years to get on to a new project after his 2008 film 'Rock On!!'

The filmmaker, who is on the verge of completing 'Kai Po Che', his adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s novel 'The 3 Mistakes Of My Life', has already decided on his next directorial.

This time, Abhishek (better known as Gattu) will team up with his cousin Ekta Kapoor’s production house Balaji Motion Pictures.

"I don’t know why Ekta and I haven’t worked together so far. She’s very dear to me. Maybe because we’re family we couldn’t think of work. But now I am making my next film with Ekta," said the director.

The story is a passionate journey about unrequited love. The project stars the director’s close friend Farhan Akhtar in the lead role.

A source close to the venture elaborated on the storyline, "The script is about obsessive love that can be categorised in the same genre as Yash Chopra’s Sunny Deol, Shah Rukh Khan and Juhu Chawla starrer Darr".

And as far as working with Ekta, who is known to be a bit too ‘assertive’ at times, Abhishek says he isn’t worried at all. 

"I am her elder brother. So I think I can make her see things my way," says the director confidently.

About his next release 'Kai Po Che', the director adds, "We’ve deviated substantially from the novel. There were so many layers to it. We had to make the material that was visually palatable. It would be hard to weigh the film against the novel".