How Amisha Replace Kareena (Again!!)?

She relishes calling a spade a spade and Salman Khan a bad actor. Kareena Kapoor is clearly not here to win popularity polls. She's here to make her presence felt, a typical second-born syndrome. So she says exactly what she wants to, without discretion. Nothing wrong with outspokenness as long as it is backed by reason, but Kareena's outbursts sound like sulks. You didn't pay enough attention to me? You are bad. I don't like you. There were bound to be casualties, Salman Khan, the middle aged brat, predictably being the first one. The khadoos Khan has taken kid Kareena's statement ("Salman is a bad actor") to heart.

Apparently there's more than what meets the eye here. There seems to be an interesting history behind Kareena's statement. There was a film that Kareena had signed opposite Salman called Yeh Hai Jalwa, which has now for reasons unknown been shelved. But they shot together for a few days. And that's where it all began.

Salman takes great pleasure in disconcerting his new female co-stars, especially if they don't seem to be succumbing to his stud-dom. Mamta Kulkarni paid his nastiness back to him in double fold during Karan Arjun. She let him have it publicly. In all her following interviews she accused Salman of making life miserable for her because she did not respond to his advances. "What can I do he's just not my type", she smirked.

But Twinkle Khanna bore Salman's boorishness in silence while shooting for Jab Pyar Kisise Hota Hai. He'd given her hell too.


However, Kareena was not about to take crap from any may-be-he's-a-big-star. Sallu's attempts to thwart the spunky youngster were thrown back on his face. Fortunately, before the tension could come to head, Ketan Desai decided to shelve the film. Instead of making one film with Salman and Sanjay Dutt (he was in the film too) and trying to match their dates for years, Ketan decided to launch two separate films with one each. While the Sanjay Dutt project is yet to take off, the Salman starrer is on the floors and the interesting thing is that Kareena is no longer in the film. Amisha Patel is.

Kareena's dates were available with Ketan yet he replaced her with a less exciting Amisha Patel, obviously Sallu has been singing.

And then again may be Kareena declined the film because it is David Dhawan who's wielding the directorial wheel. But the way Karena has been picking Salman and David Dhawan out for special mentions in her interviews, it seems like spite. Ms Kapoor is probably stung by her unceremonious ouster from Ketan's film. Had she been given the chance to refuse, she wouldn't have been so sour.

By default or design, Salman is not signing any films with her. Bravado apart, Kareena cannot laugh away a big star like him without it making some difference to her career. Hindi film industry has very little in its box to offer to its actresses, hence, significant films if not significant roles has been the going criteria for heroines. And whatever Kareena Kapoor might choose to project, she's intelligent enough to realise that the loss will be more hers. That's why she's smarting.

Final starcast of Yeh Hai Jalwa includes Salman Khan, Amisha Patel, Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Rinke Khanna, Sharad Kapoor and Sajay Dutt in a special appearance (phew!). We all know what happened to KNPH when Amisha replaced Kareena - is history going to repeat itself? We shall see!!

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