Once again Kareena Kapoor has lost a role to Priyanka Chopra - but this time because of Sussanne Khan
KARAN JOHAR HAS signed Priyanka Chopra to play the female lead opposite Hrithik Roshan in his remake of Agneepath. His original choice was Kareena Kapoor, but she reportedly lost out on this film because Hrithik's wife Sussanne was not comfortable with the two working together after they were linked to each other in the past.
Explains our source "Karan was very keen on having Hrithik and Kareena play the lead in his film but Sussanne put her foot down." Apparently, Kareena was very upset at losing out on the film but when Karan explained the situation to her she tried to understand.
"Kareena and Karan have been friends for long; Bebo was naturally upset when she heard that Karan was signing Priyanka instead of her. However, when Karan explained Hrithik's unwillingness to work with her because of Sussanne she understood his predicament," adds our source.
This isn't the first time that Bebo has lost a film because of Hrithik's refusal to work with her. She was Zoya Akhtar's first choice for Luck By Chance. Hrithik had agreed to do the film but when he later found out that Zoya was planning on signing Kareena opposite him he suddenly discovered he had date problems and kept delaying the film. A harried Zoya finally got the hint. (WRONG, it wasnt LBC, it was Kismat Talkies, but yeah under Zoya. It was supposed ot be her debut film.)
Incidentally this is also not the first film that Bebo has lost out to Priyanka; Karan had initially signed Bebo for Dostana but Abhishek Bachchan's reluctance to work with her stole the project from her. Bebo was also offered Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion but she unfortunately she let it slide by and Priyanka immediately snapped it up. The latter even won a National Award for it.
Both Dostana and Fashion have established Priyanka among the top bracket of heroines, so will Agneepath make her position even stronger?
Source: Khaleej Times






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