Kareena Kapoor joins Ash's league

Kareena Kapoor will be part of three films to be made by production house Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision.

Just days after her beau Shahid Kapur signed a two-film deal with UTV, Bebo has clinched a three-film deal with Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision for which she will reportedly be paid Rs 6 crore.

If the amount reported is correct then this deal puts Kareena in the league of top Bollywood heroines with an acting fee approximating Rs. 2 crore per film. Only Aishwarya Rai is the other Bollywood actress who gets as much amount.

As per the deal, Kareena will act in three films to be made under the banner of Shree Ashtavinayak over the period of two years.

The first of these films will be the sequel to comedy ‘Golmaal’. The sequel, appropriately titled ‘Golmaal Returns’, will feature Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Shreyas Talpade and Tusshar Kapoor.

The three-film deal does not include the movie with director Imtiaz Ali for which Kareena has been shooting lately with boyfriend Shahid. The deal suddenly puts Kareena in the thick of action after a long hiatus.

The shooting of ‘Golmaal Returns’ will begin in November in Dubai.

Kareena and Shahid mobbed in Shimla

Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapur were mobbed by fans while shooting for Imtiaz Ali's yet untitled love story at a railway station in Shimla.

'The incident happened at the Shimla railway station which was initially secluded and quiet but in an hour's time word spread that a film was being shot there and people started pouring in,' said Parag Desai, spokesperson for Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd., which is producing the film.

The crowd became so uncontrollable that the director had to call off the shooting. The actors were bundled away from the spot and the police were called.

'Suddenly, there was a sea of people. They would just not let the actors do their work. We had to quickly get Kareena and Shahid away as things were getting out of hand. The shoot had to be stopped for that day.

'The cops arrived and dispersed the crowd and shooting resumed only to be stopped again. Some portions of the film were then shot in the nearby mountains to avoid the milling crowd,' added Desai.

The film is mainly shot in Punjab and the unit had to face this problem there as well.

'It happened wherever they went. It could also be that such areas don't chance upon big stars so they go berserk. In Patiala too there was an exterior shot which had to be cancelled due to crowds,' said Desai.

Ali's film is slated to release by the end of this year. He has earlier directed the Ayesha Takia and Abhay Deol starrer Socha Na Tha.

Source : Indo Asian News Service