Kareena Kapoor’s loss is Deepika Padukone’s gain. The actress has replaced Kareena Kapoor in Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor’s next joint production venture.

Previously, the filmmakers were keen on roping in either Kareena Kapoor or Katrina Kaif for the movie. But eventually Kareena Kapoor won and the producers decided to approach her.

But the actress turned down the offer stating that her wedding would happen the same time that the movie’s shooting was to start.

But according to the sources, the reason Kareena opted out of the movie is because she wasn’t comfortable sharing screen space with Emraan Hashmi.

“It is strange Kareena was not happy with her role. She also told Ekta and Karan that her wedding would be around the same time they wanted to start shooting for the film. It's a heroine-oriented film and Emraan is not the mainstay of the project. Deepika was so excited about her role that she agreed to it a couple of days before boarding the flight to Turkey, where she is currently shooting for ‘Race 2’,” said the source.

Apparently Deepika Padukone dint take long to say yes to the movie as the movie is woman centric and is an urban take on love and is quirky, edgy and dramatic.

Later Kareena Kapoor changed her mind and said yes to the movie but Deepika Padukone had been finalized by then and makers were sure that Deepika would do a great job and will do better justice to the role than Kareena Kapoor.

The movie is directed by debutant director Akshay Roy, who has already begun working on the film.

The Bachchan family has been very secretive of their new born family member Aaradhya Bachchan, daughter of Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Even after numerous requests from the fans and over million dollars offers from magazines worldwide, the family has closely guarded the baby and how she looks.

But it seems like the family is finally ready to talk about the baby as Jaya Bachchan in a recent interview to BBC revealed the looks of Aaradhya Bachchan.

“Aaradhya looks like a bit of Aishwarya and a bit of Abhishek. She’s a tall girl,” said the veteran actress.

Jaya Bachchan also revealed that Aishwarya was a hands on mother.

Yesteryear actor and the original Superstar of Indian Cinema, Rajesh Khanna, has fallen ill.

The actor, who was admitted to hospital in April due to ill health, has fallen ill again and has stopped food intake.

“Rajeshji is unwell. He has stopped having food since the last three or four days,” said Rajesh Khanna’s manager Ashwin to IANS.

“He is not able to have his food. Khaana muh pe nahi jaa raha hai (The food is not going into his mouth),” he added.

The 69 year old superstar’s estranged wife Dimple Kapadia is currently taking care of him. His younger daughter Rinke Khanna recently flew down from Kolkata to Mumbai.

One piece of gossip going around B Town and in the media is that ‘Ishaqzaade’ actress Parineeti Chopra is dating Yash Chopra’s son and actor Uday Chopra.

The rumors started ever since the duo was spotted a couple of times at various nightspots.

But both Uday Chopra and Parineeti Chopra find these rumors ridiculous and denied dating each other.

“Whoa! Parineeti Chopra and I are NOT dating guys...it's kinda ridiculous! And she doesn't call me Sir, though I think she should start,” Uday Chopra posted on his Twitter page.

“I am single. Look for a good guy for me but not a Ricky Bahl type please,” said Parineeti Chopra to a daily in an interview.

Director Anurag Kashyap’s next release ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ has managed to create curiosity in the audience. At the same the movie has also managed to irk people of Wasseypur, who apparently have sent the writer Zeishan Quadri, threat messages warning him not to ever set foot in Wasseypur again.

But director Anurag Kashyap feels that once the movie is released the misunderstandings will be cleared.

“We will go to Wasseypur after the film’s release, after it is screened at the Ray Theatre there. People there don’t yet know what’s in the film, but after the screening all their doubts will be cleared and then we will go to Wasseypur,” said the director.

Even though director Anurag Kashyap’s movies have been a critical success, none except for ‘Dev-D’, managed to create a stir at the box-office. The director hopes that the fortunes change with this movie.

Even though Karan Johar denied that work on his next home production has begun, sources say otherwise.

Previously there were reports that Karan Johar was planning on bringing together one of most beloved Jodi of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol together in his next. After he denied these rumors it was reported that it would Ajay Devgn and Kajol.

But now sources inform that Karan Johar has scarped that idea on is planning to have a never seen before pair of Shahid Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in his movie.

The filmmaker, who has previously brought together the unlikely pair of Ranbir Kapoor and Konkana Sen Sharma, Imran Khan and Sonam and Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor, feels that bringing in new pair will have refreshing chemistry.

One of the current trends in Bollywood is to have an item song or two in the movie. While few directors have the leading lady of the movie dance to the item number, few others opt for a different actress.

Recently director Madhur Bhandarkar announced that the leading of his movie ‘Heroine’, Kareena Kapoor, will be doing two item numbers in the movie. But actress Rani Mukerji is set to go a step further as she is all set to perform three item numbers for her movie ‘Aiyaa’.

“The film is a mixture of reality and dream and Rani will be seen doing three item songs in her dream in the film. Amit Trivedi has composed six songs for the film and three of them will be Rani's item songs,” said director Sachin Kundalkar to IANS.

In the movie Rani Mukerji plays a Marathi girl who finds a man (played by Southern star Prithiviraj) attractive due to the way he smells.

Seems like actress Sonakshi Sinha has replaced Katrina Kaif as Akshay Kumar’s lucky mascot.

Over the years Katrina Kaif gained the reputation of Akshay Kumar’s lucky mascot as Akshay Kumar’s films featuring her went on to become box-office hits except for their latest ‘Tees Maar Khan’.

But with Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha’s ‘Rowdy Rathore’ grossing 100 Crores at the box-office and still going strong it’s now Sonakshi Sinha whose being termed as Akshay’s lucky mascot.

Keeping in with the current fame, Sonakshi Sinha has been roped in for a special appearance in a song in the movie ‘Oh My God’, jointly produced by Akshay Kumar and Ashwini Yardi.

The producer Ashwini confirmed the news and said, “Yes, we have just signed up Sonakshi.”

Recently it was reported that after tremendous success of ‘Rowdy Rathore’, the makers are planning on making a sequel ‘Rowdy Rathore 2’, which will in fact be a prequel.

When asked if the reports were true the producer of the movie Siddharth Roy Kapoor, CEO of UTV Productions dint deny the news but said that nothing was concrete as of yet.

“You know, there are a lot of interesting thoughts about what we should be doing - sequel, prequel, etc. But I think it's important for Sanjay (Bhansali), Prabhu Deva and us to really sit down and discuss on what we do and obviously along with Akshay take a call on what's next,” said the producer during the celebration bash held on Thursday to IANS.

Recently in an interview producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra had said that it infuriated him when rubbish movies (read ‘Rowdy Rathore’) went on to make 100 Crores at the box-office.

When asked about these comments Siddharth Roy Kapoor said, “I really don't have any comment.”

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is currently in London for the 25th anniversary celebration of Britain's MP of Indian origin Keith Vaz.

The actress, who gave birth to a beauty baby girl Aaradhya Bachchan in November, said that she was enjoying motherhood and it’s a blissful time for her.

“Being a mum, I love it. It is like bliss,” she said to PTI in one of those rare interactions with the media post pregnancy.

The speculations on when the actress would return to celluloid have been rife. But the actress said that she was in no hurry to return to the big screen.

“We will see as things go. Right now, it is blissful (to be with the baby),” she said.