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Tired of seeing Katrina Kaif on screen time and again with Ranbir Kapoor, and Abhishek Bachchan with Aishwarya Rai? Well, a new Bollywood jodi is in the works. Katrina and Abhishek have lately been green-lighting one film after another, and as things stand today the duo now has three films in their kitty. Which means they are going to be busy shooting together for many months this year and early in 2011. Knowing how secure Ash is in her marriage with Abhi, we’re sure she won’t be jealous of her hubby’s budding working relationship with the most beautiful woman in the industry, apart from herself, that is. Abhishek and Katrina will first team up for the sequel of Dostana. The film’s shoot will begin in August when Katrina returns to Mumbai after completing the shoot of Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara in Spain. Kat and Abhi would also get together for Abbas-Mustan’s Hindi remake of the Hollywood crime thriller Italian Job. The hat-trick would complete with a Vipul Amrutlal Shah fi

Pooja Bhatt wants to remake her father’s film Arth but with a contemporary take and a heavy dose of glamour, substance and drama. Pooja feels that the younger generation can learn a lot from a film like Arth. However, though she has made up her mind about making the film, she still has to decide the cast. The original was made in 1982 and starred Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi and Kulbhushan Khar-banda. The story of Arth was inspired from Mahesh’s own life. He was ashamed of having cheated on his wife. The real life incident formed the plot of his story.”

Actress Priyanka Chopra may be quite busy these days with the shoot of films like ‘Anjaana Anjaani‘ and ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’, going on but she makes it a point not to miss the fun in her life. She had a gala all-girls party on her 28th birthday in Phuket, an island in the south of Thailand and will be back in Mumbai on July 27. As she went on with six of her girlfriends, she posted on micro-blogging site Twitter: ‘Off for my sinful holiday with my girls! Oh sooooo needed it… See you guys in paradise.’ After baggin in Miss World 2000 title, Priyanka stepped into Bollywood and is, at present, one of the regining actresses of Bollywood today with a bunch of hits in the kitty ranging from ‘Aitraaz’, ‘Mujhse Shaadi Karogi’, ‘Bluffmaster’, ‘Krrish’, ‘Don - The Chase Begins Again’, ‘Dostana’, ‘Kaminey’ and ‘Salaam-E-Ishq’. Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’ got her rave reviews for a mature performance and even won her a National Award. The actress has worked with almost all of the leading men around

Actor Bipasha Basu, who has garnered rave reviews for Rituparno Ghosh’s Sob Charitro Kalponik, says she is looking forward to do more films in her mother tongue. “I had an amazing experience shooting for Rituparno. He is a fantastic director and he is one of the finest to explore the workings of the human mind and behaviour. It is brilliant the way he can dissect the layers to give dimensions to a character. I am certainly looking forward to working with him,” Bipasha tells DNA. The sassy bombshell adds, “I know of many very good directors from Bengal who are making their mark and I can see that many good Bengali films are being made. I would want to work in a Bengali movie soon but in the ones that are different and off-beat. Rituparno is looking to make Draupadi and I hope he does it soon because that is one character I’m really looking forward to essay.” Bipasha, whose recent release is a film set in Kashmir that explores the tension in the Valley due to politics and religion, says