Kareena Kapoor Khan’s new career game plan revealed

Aanand Rai admits he was keen on Kareena Kapoor at one point for ‘Raanjhanaa’. “But she just didn’t seem interested. I don’t think she knew about me. Once I zeroed in on Sonam,it was Sonam all the way.”

Another director desperately desirous of working with Kareena Kapoor was,and is,Sudhir Mishra. Two years ago he wanted to cast her with Farhan Akhtar in a desi Rajasthan-based adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Like many other Bollywood attempts to adapt Hamlet,Dhruv too fell by the wayside largely because of Kareena’s indecisiveness regarding an unconventional director.

Kareena Kapoor had said to me: “I’d love to work with Sudhir Mishra again after ‘Chameli’. But if I do another film it can’t be Hamlet which is way too dark and edgy. I want to do a masala film opposite Farhan.”

While the Farhan Akhtar,Kareena Kapoor pair is finally happening with Dev Benegal’s film,projects with Sudhir Mishra and Aanand Rai are also being discreetly discussed.

Kareena Kapoor Khan is in the mood to sink her teeth into meaty roles. Dibakar Bannerjee is also likely to cast her.

But hang on. Kareena Kapoor is not giving up the commercial masala stuff. No way! She has just given the nod to Rohit Shetty’s ‘Singham 2’. But only after he re-wrote the role to suit her star status.

Kareena Kapoor siad: “As a commercial actress I’ve done it all. Now I’d like to balance out the more massy stuff with something more unconventional. I would like to work with Aanand Rai,Sudhir Mishra,Dibakar Bannerjee and Rakeysh Mehra. And I’m working towards it.”