Slated for release on the same day are Bipasha and John’s forthcoming movies – No Entry and Viruddh , respectively.
While ‘No Entry’ is a multi-starrer comedy, Viruddh is a serious film about an elderly couple taking on the system.
‘No Entry’ has Bipasha playing a sexy club dancer who entices and romances three men (played by Anil Kapoor , Salman Khan and Fardeen Khan ).
Viruddh has John playing the only son of an elderly couple (played by Amitabh Bachchan and Sharmila Tagore ). In the film, John dies in the first half. The second half is about his parents waging a struggle against the system.
While Bipasha is sure that ‘No Entry’ is going to be a crowd puller, John believes that the presence of Mr Bachchan and Ms Tagore will work in favor of Viruddh.
“It is a sensitive movie with a message. It is also my second film with Mr Bachchan. I play his son in the film,” says John about Viruddh, which is directed by Mahesh Manjrekar.
About the clash of the two movies at the box-office, John is quoted as saying: “Mr. Bachchan will bring in the audiences for ‘Viruddh’ and Bipasha has her fan club. Together we'll have Mumbai in the theatres.”
Meanwhile, the rumors of a secret romantic affair between John and Esha Deol have proved to be baseless. John and Esha claim that they are just good friends and nothing more. Even Bipasha and Esha seemed to get along well together when they met at the Sarkar premiere on June 28.