MUMBAI: Giving the horror genre a push with both versions of Phoonk failing at the box-office, Ram Gopal Varma is back to doing films on the crime sector.

The director, who made films like Company that was loosely based on Indian mafia organisation D-Company, is all set to make his next film Department that will be based on the lives of encounter cops Daya Nayak and Pradeep Sawant.

Though the subject of the film will be the relationship between the police and the underwold, in Department the portrayal will be in a realistic manner. The film will deal with the forming of the encounter sqad and will follow the lives of the encounter cops and their friendship and rivalries.

Forming the cast of the film would be Sanjay Dutt who had last worked with the director in Daud and Abhishek Bachchan. However, the selection of an actor who would portray the character of the current Director General of Police of Mumbai, D Sivanathan, is still underway.