Watch: Temptress Nicole latkao Arjun!

Arjun Rampal has landed a big assignment in advertising: opposite Nicole Kidman and directed by Ridley Scott.

Arjun's hobnobbing with SRK and his Hollywood guests seems to have paid off big time.

The actor has shot an ad with Nicole Kidman for Schweppes. The setting appears to be Udaipur's Lake Palace, and the ad has Nicole in the company of Rajasthani dancers, including Slumdog's Rubina Ali.

She then returns to the palace where hunky Arjun is waiting in anticipation.

The two almost kiss and Nicole unzips her dress... and then hastens into her room alone and shuts the door behind her.

A disappointed Arjun looks on and then, with a naughty smile, Nicole turns to the camera to say: "Hey, what did you expect?"

How did Arjun land the spot?

One theory says that the job came through Shekar Kapur, who suggested his name to the ad's director, filmmaker Ridley Scott. The other says that being present at all of SRK's bashes in Dubai and at Mannat for Robert de Niro, Gerard Butler, etc are paying off in terms of contacts for Arjun.

Scott has made the classics Gladiator and Black Hawk Down; and working with him, and getting a few more contacts is certainly going to help Arjun further.

Catch the video of the ad here