Kareena causes Junior Bachchan's exit

It looks like Karan Johar, the boy of Indian cinema, the man no one – not even a Shahrukh Khan or Amitabh Bachchan - can refuse, is experiencing his first bout of rejection from none other than the junior Bachchan. Abhishek was approached to star in buddy K- jo's next film, but refused outright. The reason: Kareena Kapoor.

Karan was keen to cast Abhishek and Kareena in his next film, considering they set the screen on fire in 'Refugee'. But a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. Recall the fact that, before Aishwarya Rai came into Abhishek's life, Karisma Kapoor was all set to become the Bacchan bahu - and we all know how that ended!

However it seems sis Kareena is not content to let bygones be bygones and in classic Kareena style, made some rather unflattering comments about the Bachchan family. To top it off, Aby's Baby is not one to forgive and forget and has even suggested K- jo replace Kareena with Aishwarya, putting Karan in quite a quandary.

Abhishek and Karishma in better times

But when Entertainment NOW approached K- jo, he went down the standard Bollywood route of denial:

"With every day that passes I write one more line and one more scene of it. I hope it eventually fructifies into something special. But there is no truth to anything (else), I have not cast the film and I don't even know what I am making," said Johar.

Stuck between Kareena and Abhishek - not a bad situation to be in! But we doubt K- jo would agree at the moment.

(By Pratiksha Menon)