Kareena Kapoor Khan has eyebrows raising with her de-glam doctor look in the Udta Punjab trailer. At the trailer launch of the dark drugs drama, the actress described her role as “short, sweet but effective“. She added, “We make documentaries on substance abuse, but it took a visionary like Abhishek Chaubey to put the subject on celluloid.“

A source close to the development informed Mirror that the glamorous Kareena has gone completely make-up free except for kajal for this role. “She plays a Punjabi kudi in the film and was given hair extensions for a long choti. The material for her salwar kurtas was purchased in Amritsar itself and she wore sweaters with buttons down the front like the ones local girls wear. Being a Punjabi herself, she took a break from her stringent diet to happily tuck in kaali dal and aloo kulcha during the shoot,“ adds the source.

While it is known that the actress plays a doctor on a mission to curb drug abuse in the state, along with a cop, played by Diljit Dosanjh, Mirror has learnt that she is a doctor who returns from London after losing a loved one to drugs. “She then sets out to help cure drug addicts and starts working in a small clinic in Amritsar. Diljit's reel life brother is one of her patients and the duo team up to fight the drug mafia,“ says the source.

Kareena shared the stage with her ex, Shahid Kapoor, after a long time and when quizzed about whether the duo would team up for Jab We Met 2, quipped, “Imtiaz (director Imtiaz Ali) would be the right person to answer that, besides the DVD of Jab We Met is always available.“ Shahid added with a smirk, “If it had to be made, it would have been by now, I think Imtiaz has moved on.“ Yeah, and so have Shahid and Bebo to a new, grimmer Punjab where lives sell cheap.