Kareena Kapoor gives nod to Heroine, but says no to lovemaking scenes!

Kareena Kapoor gives nod to <i>Heroine</i>, but says no to lovemaking scenes! Kareena Kapoor

A nice game of musical chairs it has been. Kareena Kapoor, the original choice of director Madhur Bhandarkar for his movie Heroine, is now learnt to be back in the project after declining it earlier on.

The film, Madhur’s dream project on which he has worked for a year and a half, has been shelved ever since the news of Aishwarya Rai’s pregnancy broke out. While a dejected Madhur had refuted having any plan to revive the project, buzz is that UTV’s Siddharth Roy Kapur and writer Niranjan Iyenger want to put the derailed project back on track and it was with this intention they have approached Kareena Kapoor.

Siddharth and Niranjan reportedly met Kareena in Hyderabad, where she is taking a break from work with Saif Ali Khan, and discussed her possible return to the project. Kareena was Madhur Bhandarkar’s original choice but she had turned down the role because it was too bold and explicit.

Now, the word is that Kareena has agreed to the role but with certain reservations and conditions. While she has agreed to smoke, drink and even snort for the film, she has said a flat-out no to lovemaking scenes with male co-stars Arjun Rampal and Arunoday Singh.

So Kareena’s inclusion calls for a change in the script and the next task at hand for Siddharth Roy Kapur and Niranjan Iyenger would be to convince Bhandarkar to make these changes. Will Bhandarkar compromise? Watch this space.