It was the biggest launch a Bollywood film could ever get. It had the prestigious Cannes film Festival as its announcement venue with full on international media attention. However a bombshell was dropped just a few days later when Aishwarya Rai the leading lady opted out of the film due to her pregnancy. Madhur went on to say how she had hid the news from the producers of ‘Heroine’, which eventually brought an indefinite halt to his dream project till Kareena Kapoor who was his original choice for the movie stepped in and saved Bhandarkar’s project from dying. |
