Sonakshi Sinha to play Kamal Haasan’s wife

The ‘Dabangg’ hottie Sonakshi Sinha has confirmed doing a film with South superstar Kamal Haasan. Said Sonakshi, “I’m happy that an actor of his caliber has noticed my performance and wants me to share screen space with him.” Junior Shotgun, who has grown up watching the Tamil superstar’s films, is ecstatic about the film offer. She will be flying to London shortly to shoot for the film. " I’ve grown up watching films of his like ‘Sadma’, ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’, ‘Appu Raja’ and ‘Chachi 420’ and have immensely appreciated his performances. Things always manage to fall into place for me as has this. I landed up with this film during a break after the first schedule of ‘Joker’ so it was all very convenient for me,” said the actress.

Reportedly, Sonakshi will be playing Kamal’s wife! The actress, who is playing Akshay Kumar’s love interest in Shirish Kunder’s ‘Joker’, will be romancing Kamal, who is almost her father’s age. And the beauty is a year younger to Kamal’s daughter Shruti.

Sonakshi Sinha to romance Kamal Haasan

Sonakshi Sinha has definitely made a big splash in Bollywood and impressed one and all. And the lass with the 'Mast Mast Do Nain' has even grabbed veteran actor Kamal Haasan’s attention. The star kid has conveniently managed to sweep the legendry actor off his feet with her impressive debut with Salman Khan’s ‘Dabangg’. Buzz has it that Kamal Haasan would like to romance the hottie in his upcoming flick. The film is inspired by Sir Anthony Hopkins’ ‘Hannibal’. And Kamal wants to cast Sonakshi to play the female lead, originally played by Julianne Moore. A source close to the multi-talented personality said, “Kamal Sir is doing a film that is reportedly inspired by Sir Anthony Hopkins’ ‘Hannibal’. Since Sonakshi’s acting talents in ‘Dabangg’ have been applauded, Kamal is keen to have her in the role essayed by Julianne Moore."

The ‘Dabangg’ beauty is presently shooting with Akshay Kumar for Shirish Kunder’s Joker in Punjab’s capital. And filmmaker Selvamurugan, who will be directing Kamal’s next project, is believed to be giving Sonakshi a narration of the film very soon.

And after conquering Bollywood producers, Sonakshi’s beauty and talent have cast a spell down South as well.

Indian Actress Asin to fall in love with Japanese Superstar Tadanobu Asano

If every thing goes quite well, then actress Asin will star opposite Japanese superstar Tadanobu Asano along with Kamal Hassan in a Indo-Japanese-Disney production. It will be a martial arts movie to be shot on an international scale.

Bharath Bala and his Bharath Bala Productions (BBP) who makes television commercials, documentaries and music videos have now tied up with Walt Disney to produce the feature film in English, with versions in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Japanese. It will be directed by Bharath Bala and will have music by A.R Rahman.

The project is learnt to have a whopping 50-million dollar budget. Bala’s film is based on a script written by the best known writer in Malayalam M.T Vasudevan Nair or MT as he is popularly known, a Jnanpith award winner who has won five National awards for screenplay writing.

This period film deals with Kalaripayattu the martial arts form from Kerala and will trace its roots to the ninth century. MT’s script is now being re-written by Hollywood script doctors to give 19 Steps an international look and suitable for an overseas audience.

In the film Kamal plays a character role of a veteran Kalaripayattu guru who trains Tadanobu Asano in his fight against his enemies. Asin will play a local princess and a martial arts expert who falls in love with Asano.

Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan come face to face

Kamal Haasan's mega project Dasavatharam has opened across cinema halls and the film is being talked about, as it's the first time ever in the history of cinema that an actor would be seen in 10 different roles.

A special screening of this Tamil flick was held in Chennai and present at this screening was none another than superstar Rajinikanth. Needless to say, both Rajini and Kamal are considered as Demi-Gods down South and enjoy a tremendous fan following. So what was “Sivaji- The Boss”' reaction to his colleague's film. According to sources, Rajini was simply bowled over by the film and termed it as 'extraordinary'. With praises coming from none other than Rajini Sir himself, Kamal Haasan must be feeling all the more thrilled.

The magnum-opus which also stars Mallika Sherawat, Asin and Jaya Prada is directed by noted filmmaker K.S.Ravikumar. Bollywood's ace composer Himesh Reshammiya has given the music for this film which is being released with a record number of prints in India.