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.

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]”.