Katrina & Lara are out of Partner 2
June 19, 2009 by Arun
Filed under Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta
Much is being written about Katrina Kaif being dropped from Partner sequel.
She had starred along side Salman Khan and Govinda in 2007’s hit comedy directed by David Dhawan but as the same team is gearing up for the sequel her name is nowhere in the picture.
It is not just her but even Lara Dutta who played Salman’s love interest doesn’t star in the sequel too. Now we found out why.
It is learnt that both the actresses have been dropped because two new actresses shall be cast in their places to play Salman and Govinda’s love interests.
The story of the sequel won’t take the story of the original ahead. It will be a completely new set up. Our sources reveal to us that the makers feel that if they had cast Lara and Katrina again then the audience would have got a feeling of déjà vu and wouldn’t have excited them much.
The shoot for Partner 2 is scheduled for August.
John, Bipasha and Katrina’s exit from Karan Johar ad
April 29, 2009 by Arun
Filed under Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, Katrina Kaif
It was one casting coup waiting to happen but that hasn’t been the case to be. For the ‘Vote Aapke Haath Mein Hai’ campaign produced by Karan Johar for Dharma Productions, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif were the chosen ones (amongst a dozen odd other youth icons) to participate in a specially created video.
However, at the last moment, the trio couldn’t be a part of the video for different reasons and director Tarun Mansukhani had to contend with other actors.
“That’s true. Earlier on John Abraham and Bipasha Basu were all set to be a part of this video that has been created to spread awareness around voting for our Government this election season.
Even Katrina Kaif was finalised but in the final scheme of things, we had to shoot the video without the three of them. Such a pity”, exclaims Tarun Mansukhani who has made a drastic shift from a colourful ‘Dostana’ to his recent campaign that has been shot in all Black & White.
The video now stars Abhishek Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Imran Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Asin, Ritiesh Deshmukh, Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor and Karan Johar himself.
So what really went wrong? What was the real reason behind John, Bipasha and Katrina opting out of ‘Vote Aapke Haath Mein Hai’ which is written by Niranjan Iyengar, the man who has written dialogues Karan Johar films like ‘Kal Ho Naa Ho’ and ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’?
