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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!

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Talented Bollywood actor Vidya Balan will play one of the three female leads opposite Rajinikanth in Rana.

Southern superstar Ranjinikanth will play a triple role in Rana, which will be directed by KS Ravi Kumar. Rekha and Deepika Padukone were confirmed earlier and now Vidya

“The makers wanted a girl with a distinctly Indian look and who would click with the South audience well. Rajni has a triple role in Rana. Two are full-fledged parts while the third is a cameo. Rekha will co-star opposite the older Rajnikanth, Vidya with the middle-aged one and Deepika opposite the youngest,” a source told Mid Day.

After casting Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Robot, he has roped in three more Bollywood heroines for Rana. Seems the southern actor can’t have enough of B-town beauties.

The movie will hit the floors in April. Get ready for Rajni’s triple avataar.

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Vidya Balan may co-star with Saif Ali Khan in Vishal Bhradwaj’s jinxed film Dream Sequences, which is still live and kicking contrary to earlier reports that it has been shelved.

Balan co-starred with Saif in her 2005 debut film Parineeta, which was well received by both audiences and critics.

Dream Sequences was initially conceived with Saif and Deepika Padukone as lead pair, the duo having earlier co-starred in the box office success Love Aaj Kal.

However, around September the project appeared to have been shelved because Bhardwaj denied that he was working on it, following reports that Saif had walked out of the film over differences with him.

Earlier this month it was reported that Abhay Deol would play the male lead in the project, filming for which will start in January 2011. Priyanka Chopra was reportedly considered for the female lead.

Mid Day now reports that Saif has decided to stay with the project after a long discussion with the Omkara director.

Balan and Bhardwaj, who earlier worked together on Ishqiya, are reportedly keen to work together in Dream Sequences and are trying to work out dates.

The film is being produced by Balaji and Balan is already doing A Dirty Picture with the production house.

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After Deepika Padukone said no to Balaji’s Dream Sequence, Vidya Balan has grabbed the ‘dream’ opportunity to star opposite her Parineeta co-star Saif Ali Khan, reports Mid Day. Produced by Balaji Motion Pictures’, Dream Sequence would be directed by Vishal

Says a source in Balaji, “Initially, Deepika Padukone was to do the role. The casting of the duo together after Love Aaj Kal had its appeal. But the actress backed off when she heard that the chote nawab was having second thoughts and that Abhay Deol would fill in for him.”

However, Saif decided to stick to the project, and Vidya Balan was signed for yet another Bhardwaj movie after Ishqiya.

Vidya has also been signed by Balaji Telefilms for Dirty Picture.

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Rumours of a fall out between Nana Patekar and Prakash Jha can finally be put to rest. Prakash Jha is producing Nana’s second directorial venture after Prahaar.

The film tentatively titled Paanch Pandav is based on the epic Mahabharata.

While Ajay Devgan will play the lead role of Arjuna, Irrfan Khan is Yudhishtira and Vidya Balan is Draupadi in the film. Om Puri has been finalised to play Shakuni and Rehan Khan will play Nakula. Our source says, “Prakash Jha’s production team is hunting for a muscular actor for Bhima’s role and a relatively new actor for Sahadeva’s character. Prakash Jha will start working on Nana’s film after the release of Raajneeti.

Paanch Pandav will go on the floors by the end of this year.”

It was reported earlier that Nana was planning to launch his son Malhar in his next directorial venture based on autism and had approached Deepika Padukone to play the female lead. The source says, “That film has been put on hold for now.”

Nana had recently announced at a film event that Prakash Jha would produce his next directorial venture.

Prakash Jha says, “Whenever Nana decides to direct a film, I will be more than happy to produce it.”

Declining to divulge details, Nana says, “I will talk about the film when I make it.”

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Neil Nitin Mukesh Vidya Balan A hot looker, a great dancer, and a super actor – Neil Nitin Mukesh is definitely one of the hottest stars we have today. The actor has not only worked on some of the best scripts and played some of the most challenging roles in the past few years, but has also bagged the opportunity to share screen space with some of the sexiest B-town babes.

We have already seen Neil scorch the screens with Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu and Mugdha Godse and the hunk is all set to romance Deepika Padukone in Yash Raj banner’s ‘Lafange Parinde’.

Neil’s also looking forward to working with Priyanka Chopra. He pairs up with the lady in Vishal Bharadwaj’s tentatively titled ‘Saath Khoon Maaf’. The hunk plays one of Priyanka’s seven husbands in the film. But ask him who is on his wish list and the actor is quick to reply, “Vidya Balan,” he blushes.

“I have worked with some of the hottest actresses we have but what makes them hot is that they are great people. I am right now working with Deepika and she is a great actress. She knows the medium very well and we have a lot of fun on the sets. In the future I will like to work with Vidya Balan. She is a fabulous actress,” says Neil.

Well we wish Neil’s wish comes true soon.

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