By Jilawatan

Akshay Kumar is ready to bring us some more laughs in his next starrer Thank You and now the buzz is none other than Vidya Balan is set to make a cameo as Akki’s wifey! The actress will appear in a few flashback scenes and we bet fans are excited to hear this little piece of news!

Thank You stars plenty of A-listers, including Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Irrfan Khan, Suniel Shetty and Celina Jaitley. The romantic comedy tells the story of a young tennis player, played by Sonam, who falls in love with a playboy, portrayed by Akshay. Bobby, Irrfan, and Suniel are all hardworking men who head off for work each morning. However, Bobby is often distracted by pretty women! By night these three men are ready to take on the town at the hottest parties.
Things get messy as all these men are married! As the wives are clueless the boys get in no trouble – that is until Akshay Kumar steps into town. He charms all the ladies and soon exposes the men and ruin their lives. This movie’s trailer is packed with laughs, drama, music, and fun so we can only imagine what Thank You has in store for its full release on April 8. Are you excited about Vidya’s cameo?

By Jilawatan

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.”

By Jilawatan

Vidya Balan is the latest big name being linked to Deepa Mehta’s upcoming film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel, Midnight’s Children.

The actress recently confirmed that she has met with the acclaimed director to discuss the possibility of playing Rani Mukerji’s sister in the film. Balan is reportedly very excited at the prospect of working with Mehta – especially given a previous attempt at collaboration a couple of years ago with a project titled Stella fell through – and though no role is confirmed yet, has put on record her statement that she “would love to work with her [Mehta]”.

However, rumour has it that bad blood between Vidya Balan and Rani Mukerji – who was cast in the film at the wish of Midnight’s Children author, Salman Rushdie – may once again affect Vidya’s dreams of working with Deepa Mehta. Allegedly the relationship between the actresses has been icy ever since Pradeep Sarkar chose Rani over Vidya for a role in his second Hindi film Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, despite Vidya’s stellar performance in Parineeta.

Mehta, it seems, isn’t taking sides, saying: “I see them as sisters. They are both lovely. I am dying to work with them together.”

As reported earlier, Midnight’s Children will also star Irrfan Khan, Seema Biswas, Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. Filming will reportedly start in September.