Rohit Shetty is gearing up for the release of his upcoming cop potboiler Simmba starring Ranveer Singh and Sara Ali Khan. The film is releasing on December 28 and shows Ranveer in the role of a not-so-honest police officer who has a change of heart when a personal tragedy befalls him. During a recent interview to a leading daily, the director spoke about his cop films Simmba and the super successful franchise Singham starring Ajay Devgn and the fact that he is trying to create a cop universe with the two supercop characters.

Simmba’s trailer has a surprise entry of Ajay Devgn in his Singham avatar so obviously a question arose whether the filmmaker is trying to create a cop universe by bringing Simmba and Singham together in the same film. To this Rohit said, “Simmba is my best-written film to date and if the audience feels the same way, I will start working on the next installment sooner than expected. I’m not saying my next will be Singham and Simmba coming together, but yes, the idea is to create a cop universe. It would be difficult as something of this sort has never been attempted in India before. There is no story in mind, but the germ of an idea is in place.”

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During the course of the interview Rohit was asked that the cop genre of films reached its stagnation point in th3 2000s till it was revived with Dabangg a decade later, so does the director feel that it will once again go out of fashion. Rohit had a great reply to this and he said, “That’s never going to happen. Forget cop films, not many action films were made at the turn of the millennium owing to the advent of multiplexes. The genre will never go out of fashion because every time a problem crops up, you need a cop to deal with it. Such films will always be about good versus evil though the ethics of film-making could change.”

[caption id="attachment_184336" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Ranveer Singh and Simmba and Ajay Devgn as Singham[/caption]

It would be a treat if Rohit ends up binging Ranveer and Ajay in a film together and we hope that this “germ of an idea” really does come to fruition in reality.