After ‘Hunkkaar: The Roar’ and the upcoming ‘Teen Kauwe’, we’ll see Fatima Sana Shaikh in a crime action drama. mid-day has learnt that the actor has shot for a special appearance in Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Police Company’.

With Harshvardhan Rane playing Mumbai encounter specialist Daya Nayak, the film is being mounted as a gritty account of the Mumbai Police Detection Unit in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and its battle with the underworld.

While ‘Police Company’ rolled in August, a source close to the production revealed that Shaikh shot her portions in September. “Fatima’s appearance in the film is brief, but crucial to the plot. It’s not a token cameo. There were only a few people on set the days she shot, including her body double,” said the source.

Varma has envisioned ‘Police Company’ as a two-part offering. We’ve heard that Shaikh may have a meaty role in the second part. The source added, “Her track reveals an important aspect in the story. That’s why her casting hasn’t been announced.”

mid-day reached out to Varma, who didn’t respond till press time.