Saif Ali Khan will play the lead in Bejoy Nambiar’s remake of the French film Nuit Blanche aka Sleepless Night. Producers Shailesh Singh and Sunir Khetrapal are said to be in talks with the actor about the thriller whose protagonist is a cop with a connection to the criminal underworld who has to scour a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son and salvage his own reputation in one night.

The French film of 2011, directed by Frederic Jardin, was remade by Hollywood last year and titled Sleepless starring Jamie Foxx Michele Monaghan, but before that in 2015 by Kollywood which cast Kamal Haasan in the lead and called it Thoongaavanam. It is described as a film of crooked cops, sleazy gangsters, stolen drugs and an underage hostage.

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Meanwhile, Saif is busy promoting his Netflix series Sacred Games based on Vikram Chandra’s thriller in which also he plays a cop in search of a crime lord (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) that takes him deep into the dark underbelly of Mumbai. There is politics, crime and passion at crossroads in Mumbai in Sacred Games and the series will see Saif in the avatar of a different kind of cop than what he will play in the Sleepless Night remake.

The actor is also going to be working on the sequel of Go Goa Gone, the Indian zombie comedy of 2013, in which he plays a Russian mafioso Boris who was originally from Delhi. Saif is already talking about a good and popular franchise if the second installment of the zombie film is liked by audiences.

Bollywood trade pundits are hopeful that 2018, that didn’t start off well for Saif with his black comedy Kaalakaandi tanking at the box office, ends on a positive note for the actor with all these projects in hand. After Sacred Games, he’s got his hopes pinned on Navdeep Singh’s period action thriller set in North India in which he plays the role of a vengeful Pathan.