Quietly on Thursday morning, the shooting of A Wednesday director Neeraj Pandey's second film Special Chabbis started in Delhi.

And there's a surprise within the cast. Finally, 7 months after her blockbuster debut in Rohit Shetty's Singham, Telugu star Kaajal Aggarwal has signed another film.

Setting aside the entire biggies that were offered to her after Singham, Kaajal has opted for offbeat director Neeraj Pandey's tackle the real-life daring heist in 1987 where an unknown man posing as CBI officer Mon Singh recruited 26 men and executed a daylight raid at the Opera House branch of Tribhuvandas Bhimji Jewellers in Mumbai, and disappeared with jewellery worth lakhs.

Kaajal plays a specially-written role of Mon Singh's love-interest.

Says a source very with regards to the project, "Kaajal is the one female character in a movie about 26 men pulling off a daylight raid right under the cops' nose. Everyone including Akshay felt that the film needed a certain quantity of feminine glamour. So a job was specially written for Kaajal on this men's film."

Akshay apparently was keen that Kaajal come on-board. After his spectacularly successful screen-jodi with Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif, Akshay have been at the look-out for an additional screen queen to maintain step with him on screen.

Kajal, Akshay feels, may be the girl with whom he could form a brand new hit jodi.

While Kaajal remained unavailable for comment a source with regards to the project quietly informed us, "A LARGE NUMBER OF actors including Ajay Devgn with whom she made her Hindi debut in Singham was keen to get her to do a second film. But Kaajal desired to be adventurous and different. She had seen Neeraj Pandey's A Wednesday and loved it. More importantly she knew she desired to work with Akshay Kumar up to he desired to work together with her. The charm of doing Special Chabbis is that she's the one female character within the film."

The film's producers Viacom 18 were also keen to bring the Singham girl into Special Chabbis opposite Akshay Kumar.

While Akshay and Kaajal Aggarwal join the shooting from March 1 in Delhi, Anupam Kher and Jimmy Sheirgill started shooting with Neeraj Pandey on Thursday.