'No one's tapped bebo's acting potential yet'

And now Bebo to play a politician

POLITICS is the new flavour of Bollywood this year. Or how else do you explain the fact that most glam girls in the industry are taking up roles of politicians.

Katrina Kaif, Bipasha Basu and Sushmita Sen are already preparing to play real- life politicians in different projects, and the latest addition to the list is Kareena Kapoor.

Kareena is set to join the political bandwagon in Sudhir Mishra's upcoming project, Dhruv . Filmmaker Mishra feels only Kareena can do justice to the "strong role" in his film.

" Bebo's role goes through lot of variations. Dhruv shows how her character becomes a politician from an ordinary girl, who is the daughter of a police commissioner. The film chronicles how Kareena's character is sucked into the world of power," says Mishra, who worked with the actress in Chameli . Mishra's film also stars Farhan Akhtar and Chitrangada Singh. " No one has tapped Kareena's acting potential yet. She is a strong actor with a tremendous instinct. I have got a dream star cast for my film," adds Mishra.

It all started with Katrina agreeing to play a strong-willed politician in Prakash Jha's forthcoming film, Rajneeti. The buzz suggests Kat plays a character inspired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. What's interesting is the film's story also resembles Sonia's life. Kat's character takes over her husband's political career after his sudden death and then goes on to become a huge political figure.

For the role, Katrina has undergone voice modulation classes since she "needs to speak in a certain way towards the end of the film." In fact, Jha is going a step further by choosing even the fabrics for the clothes for Kat's character.

It's not just Katrina. Bipasha has also put her best foot forward for Rahul Dholakia's Lamhaa. It's widely believed that Bips' character is inspired from Kashmiri leader and Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson Asiya Andrabi.

Andrabi, as per reports, has voiced her displeasure about Bipasha portraying her life. The leader stated she doesn't want to see her character played by a woman who prefers to be seminude most of the times.

"Bollywood actresses are looking for new challenges and if they find new and exciting projects, it hardly matters if the role is of a politician. It's a good sign for the film industry," says trade analyst Taran Adarsh.

There's more. As reported earlier by MAIL TODAY, Sushmita is also waiting for a clearance from the Pakistan People's Party to play slain Pakistani leader and ex- Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in a biopic.

"I am keen on playing the role. The producers are waiting for a clearance from the Pakistan People's Party (Bhutto's party). Once we get the go-ahead, we will start the movie," Sushmita had told the reporter. Well, it looks like Bollywood is set to add a new twist in the political tale.

Kareena is good and definetly done some good roles..some interesting ones coming up for all of the actors.

i think Chameli & Jab We Met were her best performances till date.......i hope she chooses films which give her an opportunity to showcase her best.......and stay away from glam roles without any substance.

Originally posted by: swan20

i think Chameli & Jab We Met were her best performances till date.......i hope she chooses films which give her an opportunity to showcase her best.......and stay away from glam roles without any substance.

very true, she was so good in jab we met

Kareena is awesome...she needs to stop doing those bimbo roles and do things that have more substance. She has done some good work- Refugee, Chameli, JWM, Dev, Fida...but that's too few for an actress of her calibre. Wearing a bikini only takes you so far...some cheap popularity...if she wants respect from people she has to deliver. As an actress you want to be remembered for you work not for your histrionics and public hulla bulla. Those die with time...nobody remembers...and very few people follow those things anyways...but 50 yrs down the line when someone will see JWM they will say WOW Kareena was awesome!

Only if she stop doing movies like Tashan, i didn't understand why she bothering doing the movie?? Her role was very bad and she had to expose herself so much when her career is going so well. In Jab we met i did liked her but i loved Shahid more.

Originally posted by: pksanam

agreed 100%.. she should do more roles with substance..

out of all her movies i only liked JWM