MUMBAI: Percept Picture Company will release the Emraan Hashmi-starrer Rush in May, though the exact date has not been revealed.

The film has Hashmi playing a charismatic investigative journalist who plunges into a deadly engineered cat and mouse game.

The film, launched in 2009 as Raftaar24/7, was delayed because of ill health and subsequent death of director Shamim Desai who completed the film except for three songs.

Creative director Priyanka Desai then revived and completed the crime thriller.