MUMBAI : Shilpa Shetty has been signed on to play the lead role in Anurag Basu’s film Metro. The film also stars Shiney Ahuja and Kay Kay Menon in lead roles.

Metro is a love story which knocks at the day-to-day life of a person living in a metropolis. The film looks into how the personal relationships of such people take a backseat and start stagnating.

The film is said to be loosely based on the Meryl Streep-Robert de Niro romance Falling In Love.Basu has repeated Shiny in the film after Gangster, though Emraan Hashmi and Kangna Ranaut don’t find a place.