Shoaib Mansoor project( Kareena still reading the script)

Kareena Kapoor Khan, who was reportedly considering an offer from acclaimed Pakistani director Shoaib Mansoor, is now ready to make the collaboration official. The actress, we hear, will jet off to Dubai next week to meet Mansoor for a formal script narration and sign on the dotted line.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

A source close to Kareena says, "A few months ago, Mansoor had e-mailed his concept to Kareena, saying that she will have a powerful role in the film. She liked the idea but wanted to read the script before giving her nod to the film. She will be the first A-list actress to work in a Pakistani project."

Kareena, who is currently shooting for R Balki's Ki And Ka with Arjun Kapoor, has now taken off time to meet the Bol director in Dubai where she will stay put for two days. "Although Kareena has verbally accepted the offer, she wants to hear the script. Post that, she will sign the deal. For a while now, she has been keeping an eye out for projects that will allow her to push the envelope and believes that Mansoor's story is one of them," adds the source.

Interestingly, the actress plans to join Twitter for a day to announce the film by the month-end. "She also plans to connect with her fans online. But, she will be off social networking after that," the source reveals.

Kareena's spokesperson confirms the news.

In early days of Khuda Kay Liye a reporter asked Shoaib Mansoor about his immediate future plans in film making business, and Mansoor,- if not being pessimist- then very realistically said, "Oh no, have you seen my filmmaking speed, it took me years to complete my first film, I don't think I would make more than five films in my whole life.'

Well, with the announcement of his next film; and that too within a year of his last widely acclaimed sociocultural release (Bol), it seems like Mansoor has started cutting down on the long gaps he use to take before initiating a new project, and this time with Indo-Pak relations being focused, it would be even bigger and far more interesting than his previous ventures.

According to Times of India, the next Shoman production' is going to be a period love story set during 1947 Indian subcontinent partition.

Talking to TOI, Mansoor said, "I've been deeply troubled by the deteriorating relations between the two countries. For too long now we've been blaming extraneous forces and a third-party for the decline in friendship between the two nations. Why not look within ourselves for reasons why the bonding across the border has taken such a beating?"

"It cannot be a superficial boy-meets-girl-across-the-barbed-wire-fence story. Cinema in both countries needs to go deeper to pin down the reasons for the rapidly deteriorating relations between India and Pakistan," commented Mansoor on the subject he has chosen this time.

Like all his past silver screen works, this time again the story is written by Shoaib Mansoor himself, however cast and the name of the film hasn't been finalized yet, or at least not yet been made public, but we hope this time again Shoaib Mansoor will come up with something really big and will set a trend for all in-future-to-be-made Indo-Pak centric films.

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Krishika Lulla, who's come on board as the producer , tells us, "It's true, Shoaib and I are collaborating for a female-oriented film." She remains tight-lipped abiout the deails, "It's still in the scripting stage." She has already been successful with two female centric films "NH10 and Tanu Weds Manu Returns " and hopes to have a hattrick with this film.

She is hesitant to talk about Bebo's presence in the film. Nevertheless, our sources confirm that the producer, the director and the actress will meet shortly to finalise the project.
Now wait for the announcement!