Rumours are rife that superstar Rajinikanth has signed Vidya Balan to do be his second heroine in daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth produced KS Ravikumar directed Raana.

In the film the superstar is doing triple role.

There have been a lot of speculations in the media as far as the female casting of Rajinikanth’s Raana is concerned.

While Deepika Padukone has been confirmed as one of the heroines there were rumours that Asin, Madhuri Dixit and Rekha were also offered to be a part of the film.

Vidya Balan met Rajinikanth at NDTV’s ‘Indian of the year award’ in New Delhi. She was literally gushing over him.

It was shown on NDTV how Vidya called out to her mom who was sitting among the audiences to come on stage to meet the superstar.

From there it was easy for the producers of Raana to rope in Vidya Balan

It is more or less confirmed that Vidya Balan will play the love interest of the middle-aged Rajni, while Deepika will be paired with the youth Rajini.

Now only father Rajini has to find a heroine!

When acting along with Rajini is a dream of all happening actresses in the country today, Asin had rejected an offer to play opposite Rajini in ‘Raana’.

In ‘Raana’ Rajini play triple roles and appears in there get ups of different generations. While the older warrior Rajini will have Rekha, the youthful Rajini will have Deepika opposite the super star.

To co-star opposite the middle aged Rajini, Asin was approached and she is said to have rejected the offer. Sources say the creative team of ‘Raana’ wanted a girl with a distinctly Indian look and who would click with the South audience well.

After Asin refused the role, no time was wasted in trying to convince her. The team went ahead and signed Vidya Balan.

Sources say the characters of the first two Rajni are full fledged while the third youthful Rajini will be a special cameo.

Salman Khan, the handsome hunk of bollywood who rocked in films like ‘Wanted’ opposite young cute thing Ayesha Takia, is being wooed by classical Indian beauty Vidya Balan.

Of course, Vidya Balan’s desire is only limited to celluloid and there is nothing personal about it, but even that desire is difficult to fulfill. Sources say that Salman Khan has decided in principle to work only with upcoming young things, who could provide some freshness to the whole project.

The main reason for this is the type of Salman Khan’s movies. In fact, Salman Khan’s movies have generally male oriented themes and seasoned actresses like Vidya Balan will hardly serve any purpose there.

Generally, heroines are used as an arm candy of Salman Khan in the film. It was obvious in Prabhu Deva’s ‘Wanted’, wherein Ayesha Takia had hardly anything to do. Movie was out and out action and had Salman everywhere.

Similarly, his upcoming ‘Ready’ has Asin, who is also relatively fresh face for the industry.

The buzz doing the rounds in the industry is that despite of Vidya Balan showering Salman Khan with lavish praise; it is very hard to get a role opposite Salman Khan.

Even his upcoming ‘Dabangg’ features svelte and suave, young Sonakshi Sinha, and not anyone of Vidya’s contemporaries.

Sources say that Salman Khan’s choice of younger heroines like Ayesha Takia, Asin and Sonakshi Sinha has been dictated by his advancing age and a need to keep balance on the celluloid.

These young actresses are bubbly and fresh and fully complement Salman Khan’s macho image in public.

There is no dearth of actresses who don’t have Salman Khan on their wish list of actors they want to work with. And the sexy seductress Vidya Balan is no different. We hear the actress, who is herself on the wish list of every actor in tinsel ville, is desperate to romance the hottest hunk Salman, on-screen of course.

Apparently, the actress is going around declaring that Salman’s like the quintessential lover and she wants to do a romantic role with him. While complimenting Salman is fine, Vidya’s act is being seen by many as too hard an effort to attract his attention. However, with Salman now sticking to doing films with fresh and young faces like Sonam, Ayesha, Sonakshi and Asin, we wonder if Vidya stands a chance!

When an outstanding iconic figure like Vidya Balan is overthrowned by a younger actor like Asin is really a hard news to swallow.

As the Bollywood industry knows that Vidya Balan is the first choice in any director’s list is quite shocking to hear that she has been replaced. But there is reasonable answer to why things had happened so because Bhansali was continuously delaying the project that apparently erupted Vidya’s patience.

Evidently when Balan thought to quit Bhansali had no choice but replace Asin in her place and the same case even happened with Harman Baweja who was replaced by John Abraham.

More over a shining star like Vidya Balan who would avoid her rays. However, Asin is lucky to get such a pricy piece of cake.