Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan will team up for the first time in Yash Raj Films' next project, to be directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya. The film has reportedly been tentatively titled Thug.

Early reports suggested that the makers of Thug were in talks with Hrithik Roshan, who apparently turned the film down due to some reservations. Subsequently, it was speculated that Deepika Padukone and Nawazuddin Siddiqui were joining the cast. However, it seems that Bachchan and Aamir will co-star in the film.

In spite of their distinguished filmographies and string of admired performances, the two actors have never worked together before and now that their names being attached to the film, Thug is being touted as a bigger project than it would otherwise be.

Thug is being described as an action-adventure, inspired by novelist Philip Meadows Taylor's 1839 book, Confessions of a Thug. Set in the pre-Independence era, it chronicles the widespread 'thug' culture of that time.

Source: NDTV