After Urmila Matondkar, Nisha Kothari, Antara Mali and Jiah Khan, the filmmaker showers his affections on Madhu Shalini.
Ram Gopal Varma who has always managed to stay in the news, be it for his films or the women in his life, has found yet another reason to hit the headlines. The filmmaker, after Urmila Matondkar, Antara Mali, Nisha Kothari and Jiah Khan, seems to have found his latest muse in the form of actress Madhu Shalini, who will be launched in his next film Department.
A source informed Mumbai Mirror, "Ram Gopal Varma was introduced to Madhu Shalini by his old friend Puri Jagannath, during the shoot of Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap. At the time, Ramu was busy with his film Not A Love Story.
He was also busy locking his next venture Department then. Ramu immediately signed her on for the film he is co-producing with Sanjay Dutt. Ramu and Madhu have come closer since then."
"Madhu is now Ramu's latest muse. He is leaving no stone unturned to present the actress in the best possible way in Department. In fact, Ramu will be shooting a big budget song titled 'Thodi Si' with her in Mumbai's Mehboob Studios soon.
He will apparently be spending Rs 1 crore on that single song. It's surprising since RGV had earlier made his film Not A Love Story in a budget of Rs 80 lakh."
However, when contacted, Ramu laughed off the news and said, "She is just playing a role in Department along with two others and we are not even good friends. You can ask her that." Interestingly, despite him not being friends with Madhu, the filmmaker follows her on a popular networking site.
Who is Madhu Shalini? Madhu Shalini is an actress from the Telugu film industry. She has worked in a couple of Tamil films as well. After her debut film Andarivaadu, which did not do too well at the box office, she found success with her second venture Na Pranam Kaante Ekkavu. She has worked in around a dozen films down south. Department will be her Bollywood debut vehicle.
Moving onto the production of Housefull 2, sequel to Housefull which has already begun and the filmmakers have opted out for London as their first stop.
While things are running smoothing, not everything is going to plan as accordingly to reports, director Sajid Khan is having a difficult time in persuading his heroines, Asin Thottumkal and Zarine Khan into wearing a bikini.
Sajid wants to incorporate the same sort of glamorous look he did with the original Housefull, where his leading ladies, Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone and Jiah Khan were seen dancing around in hot bikini’s.
But unfortunately, Asin and Zarine are just not comfortable in wearing one, and we don’t blame them, they certainly don’t match up to the likes of Sajid’s previous actresses. Though Zarine is said to have lost weight, we don’t think she could pull off a bikini just yet, and as for Asin she has clearly gained weight in the movie Ready.
On the other hand, heroine number three, Jacqueline Fernandez has given her director the green light and has absolutely no qualms about wearing a bikini. No surprises there!
We’re guessing Sajid never mentioned the bikini look with Asin and Zarine before they signed on the dotted line. Anyhow, the two stars have come across very confident about what they believe; they’re not called Salman Khan’s leading ladies for no reason.
Do you think Asin and Zarine are being unreasonable? Or are they doing the right thing?
