The DayAfter NOVEMBER 16-30, 2016 ISSUE | Page 61

entertainment bollywood Alia Bhatt Twists Idea for Dil Chahta Hai Sequel I n an interview with HT Café B-town girl Alia Bhatt expressed her desire to work in the sequel to Dil Chahta Hai (2001), along with her contemporaries, Shradddha Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra. She had said, “Pari (Parineeti), Shraddha and I should work in the sequel to Dil Chahta Hai as three friends. I think that’s a superb idea. It will be so much fun.” Later in an interview, after tweeting about the possibility of the sequel, Dil Chahta Hai maker and actor Farhan Akhtar told HT Café, “Through you guys, I got to know that Alia wants to do a DCH part 2 with Shraddha and Parineeti. That (thought) stayed in my head, and I am thinking about it very strongly, but this time with three girls (as the protagonists). We will see how it goes.” Katrina Kaif Don’t Want to Work With Deepika Padukone S hah Rukh Khan and Aanand L Rai are coming together for a film, which will see its release on December 21, 2018. Aanand’s last few films ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ and ‘Raanjhanaa’ have received love from the audience and SRK coming together with a director as loved as him makes for a great combination. While not much has been revealed about the film so far, recent reports claim that the film is a love triangle and Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif have been approached for the film. But Katrina is in no mood to share screen space with Deepika according to many reports. In fact, she has apparently made it clear that if Deepika comes on board, she would opt out of the film. Sonam Kapoor Says SRK Don’t Want to Work With Her S onam Kapoor is nothing if not candid. Her honesty can be quite refreshing. In an interview to Filmfare, Sonam was asked if she wants to share screen space with Shah Rukh Khan. The outspoken actress replied that she wants but ‘Shahrukh don’t want to work’ with her. Saawariya girls who set the screen ablaze in PRDP opposite Salman said, “I don’t think Shah Rukh wants to work with me. There have been so many opportunities where I could have worked with him but he...I wanted to work with him and I reached out to him as well. But I never got the opportunity. I guess it’ll happen whenever he feels like working with me.” She also added that in Bollywood, an actor decides whether a certain actress will be cast opposite him in a film or not. November 16-30, 2016 The Dayafter 61