MUMBAI: Going by the immense response that his play The Last Salute has been getting since it premiered in New Delhi last week, Mahesh Bhatt has decided to make a celluloid version of the play.

The play explores facts of the gulf crisis and the US intervention which has been questioned by the civilized world time and again. It explores emotions, talks about how world peace and political orders of the day effect the common man.

While Pooja Bhatt will co-produce the film with Dino Morea. Bhatt is also planning to collaborate with the writer of the book Muntadhar Al Zaidi on the screenplay.

The film, to be shot entirely in Lebanon with an international technical crew, will be in Arabic and English with subtitles in order to present it to a global audience.

Incidentally, the play stars Imran Zahid as Zaidi, the 32-year-old Iraqi journalist, who came to the limelight having thrown a shoe at former US President George Bush in 2008.

Casting of the film is in progress.