Vickey Lalwani (MUMBAI MIRROR; June 3, 2014)

Enlarge ImageKareena Kapoor has been asked to play the female lead oposite Akshay Kumar in Prabhu Dheva's next, Singh is Bling, being produced jointly by Ashwini Yardi and Akshay. A few weeks ago, she was offered Bejoy Nambiar's next (untitled), produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar.

More recently, Sujoy Ghosh flew down to Goa to ask her to play the protagonist in his next, Durga Rani, which was earlier offered to Vidya Balan and Kangana Ranaut.

Now, Kareena is in a dilemma. A friend of Kareena told Mirror, "All the three films which have been offered to Kareena have a plum role for her but they will all kick off in the last quarter of this year. She will be able to accommodate only two of them."
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Upala KBR (DNA; June 3, 2014)

Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor Khan haven’t worked together since 2009 (Kambakkht Ishq). Now industry sources reveal that Prabhu Dheva is trying to get this duo back onscreen for his next film Singh Is Bliing.

The actress has been approached to play the leading lady. A source says, “Kareena has been approached to play the main lead. It’s a remake of a South film. For the first time Prabhu Dheva has written a script which has a meaty role for the heroine. Usually in his films, the actresses have little to do but this one is different. He is keen to have Kareena play the part because it needs a performer and not just a glamazon. Prabhu Dheva feels that Kareena is one of the finest actresses we have today. Besides, she and Akshay have always shared a great chemistry onscreen.”

While Prabhu Dheva doesn’t deny that Kareena has been approached, he says, “It’s the producer’s call. 
They will announce who is the actress in due course.”

Producer Ashvini Yardi says, “It’s too early to talk about it. We are yet to finalise the lead actress. We will make an announcement later this month.”

Kareena Kapoor Khan remained unavailable for comment.