When Telugu superstar Ramcharan Teja came to Mumbai last Wednesday to meet the cast and crew of the Hindi-Telugu bilingual Zanjeer, the first thing that director Apoorva Lakhia did was to take Teja for a crew-cut hairstyle.

“In the original Zanjeer, Amitabh Bachchan flaunted long hair, almost covering his ears, which became the rage of the nation. But the new Vijay will sport a hairstyle like a crew-cut,” says a source close to the movie.