Deepika and Kangana were considered for Kahaani 2?

The trailer of Kahaani 2 gives you a sense of why so many actresses said no' to doing this film. First, the actress from the first Kahaani, Vidya Balan rejected the film, leading to much how-could-she-do-this-to-me kind of outrage from the director Sujoy Ghosh who scuttled to Kangna Ranaut.

At that point of time the project was called Durga Rani Singh and was meant to be a story of a brave cop. So when did the cop heroine disappear from the script?

When the script went to Kangana, she took nearly two months to decide she didn't want to do it. Sujoy then took the script to Kareena Kapoor Khan who instantaneously said no to the film.

Exhausted, Sujoy lucked out when Aishwarya Rai Bachchan liked the script and agreed to do it. But then, Sujoy had second thoughts because the original choice, Vidya Balan said yes'. What made Vidya change her mind? Could it be the fact that all her films since Kahaani in 2012 had bombed? Without a by-your-leave from Aishwarya, Sujoy quietly and quickly signed Balan and Rai was forgotten.

The trailer of Kahaani 2 opens well with Vidya doing the distressed mother's act with heart wrenching scrupulosity. Mother gets a call from the kidnapper, runs out, gets knocked down and goes into a coma. So far, so good. But then the trailer derails as it proceeds to cram in every kind of red herring, including a kidnap-murder-charge against the heroine.

Curiously, many films this year have had the protagonist bonding with a little girl" Rocky Handsome, Jack Reacher, Shivaay. Looks like Bajrangi Bhaijaan has had its effect.

The little girl who plays Vidya Balan's daughter in Kahaani 2 keeps mumbling, "They don't let me sleep. I have to fix this." Could that be the scriptwriter's line?

Vidya Balan has reportedly been roped in for Sujoy Ghosh's "Kahaani 2".

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Vidya Balan may have replaced Deepika Padukone in this Sujoy Ghosh directorialVarinder Chawla

Deepika Padukone has a reasonably free calendar this year and yet she's losing out on offers, it seems.

According to aSpotboye report, "Kahaani 2" is now happening with Vidya Balan, who had hinted at signing the film last year.

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"Sujoy and I are doing a film which will roll early next year, I'm hoping it will be Kahaani 2 but Sujoy has other interesting scripts too," Pinkvilla quoted her as saying.

Set to go on floors in April, the film has had to go through tonnes of problems earlier. Director of the first one, "Kahaani", Sujoy Ghosh, was asked to leave the sequel after his bitter fallout with producer Jayantilal Gada. However, the differences have been ironed out and everything seems to be on track right now.

"Sujoy is free to take the franchise ahead. He has been trying to put that project together since quite sometime. Let him put his cast together, I will be glad to produce the film," Gada told theweb portal.

In other news, Deepika's upcoming films have made considerable amount of noise. Although she has repeatedly denied having signed any for the year, there are enough hints suggesting her being in Vin Diesel's next "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage". Saina Nehwal biopic and Aanand L Rai's next with Shah Rukh Khan are some of the other possible projects she may be roped in for.

"Just to set the record straight, I have signed no new films as of 2016," she told The Indian Express.