Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan in "Running With The Bulls"

Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan's roles in Zoya Akhtar’s Running With The Bulls will offer them something new.

Farhan Akhtar’s character Karthik in KCK was that of an introverted loner, while Hrithik plays a solitary paraplegic in Guzaarish. They have prepared intensely for their roles, with Hrithik gaining weight and moving around in a wheelchair and Farhan shutting himself from the world for almost a month. But they don’t have to do anything like that for Zoya Akhtar’s Running With The Bulls.

Zoya Akhtar’s film will be shot in Spain and will help the actors live it up. The film is about male bonding, ala Dil Chahta Hai. It’s a fun-filled road film about male bonding. Abhay Deol plays the third best friend. While Hrithik and Farhan are buddies, having worked together on Lakshya, Farhan wants to hang out with Abhay so that the camaraderie in the film is natural.

Farhan Akhtar says, ‘I think I am destined to return to male bonding films as an actor and filmmaker. I am looking forward to Zoya Akhtar’s film because it is going to be fun and spontaneous. I don’t need to prepare much for it except for hanging out with Abhay and Hrithik before we head to Spain. Hrithik and I haven’t hung out in a while, and Abhay is somebody I need to get to know. This film feels a little like Rock On! because that was also about friendship and it obviously takes me back to my Dil Chahta Hai days.’

The shooting for the film begins in Spain in April and will be completed in about 4-5 months, as Farhan Akhtar starts shooting for Don 2 in September this year.