Alia-Ranbir
Subhash K Jha (DNA; December 15, 2015)

Ranbir Kapoor who had a fairly disastrous year in 2015 has been seriously advised by those close to him to steer clear of his comfort zone. He is unlikely to do any more films with Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Anushka Sharma with whom he has a done a majority of his films in recent times.

Though Ranbir’s latest release Tamasha has done well enough for its director Imtiaz Ali to come together with his leading man Ranbir for a third film, it won’t feature Deepika again.

Says a source, “Ranbir with Katrina or Deepika has become a predictable pairing. He has never cared who his heroine was. In fact, in Rockstar, Imtiaz cast a completely out-of-depth Nargis Fakhri with Ranbir. Now, his next will feature Ranbir with Alia for the first time.”

Incidentally, Ranbir’s best friend Ayan Mukerji has cast Ranbir-Alia in his superhero film. But the future of that project is, at the moment, is uncertain.