Kareena Kapoor to play Queen Arundhati

After playing walk-in-walk-out parts in films like RA.One and Agent Vinod, it looks like Kareena Kapoor has finally decided to do some significant roles. After bagging the much-talked about role in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine, the actor is now gearing up to play the challenging lead role in the Hindi remake of 2009 Telugu film Arundhati.

Directed by Telugu director Kodi Ramakrishna, Arundhati is a fantasy film which had turned out to be a box office hit. The original film starred Anushka Shetty who had bagged many awards and tremendous accolades for her brilliant performance. And now our sizzling Bebo will be seen playing the mysterious queen – a very powerful character in this woman centric drama.

We hear that Katrina Kaif and Rani Mukerji were also approached for the same role, but they could not do the film due to date problems. Apparently, Bebo adjusted her busy calendar to play the legendary character. Sonu Sood, who played a baddie in the original movie, is going to retain his role in the remake as well.

Kareena is busy working on Heroine right now, after which she will start shooting for Arundhati’s Hindi remake. A little birdie has chirped to us that Priyadarshan was to make this film in Hindi, but he can’t direct the film at such a short notice. The original film’s producer M Shyam Prasad has the rights to remake the film but he’s yet to finalise the director for the Hindi version. Amidst all this there’s a strong buzz that Life In a Metro, Murder, Gangster and Kites director, Anurag Basu, is most likely to don the director’s hat. Anurag has never worked with Kareena before, so this should be an interesting combination to look out for.

The last time Bebo played a royal woman, was in Asoka where she played Princess Kaurwaky, but that one turned out to be a dud at the BO. But that’s in the past. As of now, with two woman centric films in her kitty (Heroine and Arundhati), 2012 is definitely turning out to be an extremely lucky year for Kareena! check out some hot collection of her previous movies and photoshoots .click to enlarge.

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Kareena kapoor refused karan johar's film with emraan hashmi as co-actor

Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor’s dream to bring together the glam diva Kareena Kapoor and hero of the masses Emraan Hashmi in a thriller to be directed by a newbie will no longer come true. Bebo did confirm that she isn’t doing her friends’ co-production, but did not put a finger on the problem she had with the project. Maybe it was to do the pairing with Emmie or maybe not. However, one of the reasons we have been hearing from insiders is that the Heroine lady wasn’t swayed away by the story and would rather prefer Karan Johar’s staple style of films – the candy floss story weaved in a larger than life scale.
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Whatever is the reason, we are sure the latest development is a disappointment, particularly for Emraan, but he shouldn’t really take it to heart. ‘Coz for an actor who began his career with newcomers like Geeta Basra, Sonal Chauhan, Tanushree Dutta and others, it’s good to know that Bebo was even being considered for a project opposite him. Don’t you agree? We think, apart from the unexpected box-office success of The Dirty Picture, the steady collections of Emraan’s film at the box-office and his unfailing performance in them are responsible for the big fishes opening up their golden gates for the Jannat 2 actor.

And like Bipasha Basu, who had apparently turned down a film with Emraan in the past but is now paired opposite him Raaz 3, Bebo too may turn back and retrace her steps in the future. Coz a Friday is all it takes to change fates in B-town!

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