Hunt for Salman's leading lady
By:
Subhash
K.
Jha,
IndiaFM
Friday,
May
18,
2007
The
resourceful
Boney
Kapoor
is
ready
to
start
a
re-make
of
the
Telugu
film
Pokhiri
directed
by
South
India's
rubberman
Prabhu
Deva.
Salman
Khan
has
been
signed
to
play
the
role
immortalized
by
Mahesh
Babu
in
Telugu.
But
who
will
play
Salman's
leading
lady?
In
Tere
Naam,
Satish
Kaushik's
remake
of
the
Tamil
blockbuster
Sethu,
Salman
was
paired
with
a
newcomer
Bhoomika
Chawla.
Boney too build his project on the pristine premise. "We don't want any of the girls who have already worked with Salman. In the Pokhiri remake we want to create a fresh pair with Salman and a girl he has never worked with. I think audiences are tired of watching him with the established heroines," said Boney on Thursday before he left for a ten-day trip to London and LA.
"I've to take a decision very shortly," he sighed. "Time is running out. And we need to start shooting in September." One possibility that was seriously considered was Asin, the Telugu actress who co-starred with Mahesh Babu in the original. But Asin has apparently signed an exclusive contract for the Hindi remake of another South Indian blockbuster Gajini opposite Aamir Khan.
Now Boney is looking at Kangana. "Both my wife Sridevi and I saw her work and in Gangster thought there was something really special about her. She isn't like the other girls in Bollywood. She has a very unique personality."
Kangana is now in the reckoning for the role. Although she's half Salman's age she's as old as Katrina Kaif who has starred opposite Salman in Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya.
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