By Jilawatan

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.

By Jilawatan

Vishal Bharadwaj is in trouble with his latest venture Ishqiya. This is not the first time that he having troubles with the Censor Board. He has undergone the same for Omkara and Kaminey earlier.

Ishqiya has a strong storyline and has a brilliant cast consisting of Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi. The Censor Board this time has raised a concern over the language of the film. They made it amply clear about some compromise with the language has to be made in order to get a ‘U/A’ certificate!

In fact some according to a source “The promos had a line that ‘Naadi tale H**** aur Peepal tale P****” which was changed to “Naadi tale Khayenge aur peepal tale piyenge.” The same source also said “Now Shemaroo (the producers) and the cast and crew of the film have got together to make some changes to the promo so that it gets a ‘U/A’ certificate.”

The film is about two men who are on a run. They fall for the same woman who happens to be a widow. The director of this movie is Abhishek Chaubey who has assisted Vishal Bharadwaj for all these years. The movie Ishqiya is scheduled to be released early next year and has already ripples across. Hope all this publicity rules in its favor.

By Jilawatan

Vidya Balan, always game to take on challenging roles that require unconventional approaches by mainstream actresses, is all set to do it again in the forthcoming Ishqiya, being made by Vishal Bhardwaj of Omkara fame.

Having succeeded in getting Kareena Kapoor to play a negative role in Omkara, Vishal is doing the same with Vidya.

She plays a village belle with darker shades to her role, swearing in colourful Hindi and featuring in steamy scenes with co-star Arshad Warsi, including a passionate on-screen kiss.

Vidya had earlier done a kissing scene with Madhavan in the film Guru, and has gone on record as saying she would not mind doing a kissing scene if it was critical to the plot of the story.

Arshad called Vidya ‘a true professional’ after their steamy scene was filmed.