Actors Sonam Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan will be part of a mock train robbery on Delhi Metro as part of their promotional campaign for their upcoming film. Filmmaker duo Abbas-Mustan has secured the permission from the Delhi Metro authorities to break into a vault in a Metro to expose the security loopholes on the train.

“Abhishek and Sonam, leading the gang consisting of Bipasha Basu and Neil Nitin Mukesh will try to break into a vault of a Metro train as part of the promotional campaign for Players, since there is a similar kind of a sequence in the film and it goes with the plot. Also, this will expose the security gaps in the system and will serve as a mock drill for the security forces responsible for the Metro in Delhi,” says an official on why the permission was granted for this activity in such a sensitive zone in Delhi. The Delhi Metro authorities have never given such a permission, given the sentitive nature of the government property and keeping in mind the bomb blasts that had happened this year.

“Abhishek and Sonam will be conducting the mock security drill where they would get into a train and would open a security vault inside the train. The security personnel would be told not to stop them by the senior official accompanying them, but an advance alert about it is not being sounded to everybody. They also need to see how they alert the central system and react to the situation even though they see a few stars doing things on the train that they normally shouldn’t have done,” the source added.

The ‘robbing time’ has been fixed at half an hour where Sonam and Abhishek will try the break-in. “The moment an alert is sounded, the activity will stop. So, it would be a maximum of fifteen minutes and after that the stars will meet the security personnel and interact with them. It is of course a publicity stunt, but it will be of mutual benefit both to the Delhi Metro and the film,” the source ends.