Kareena Kapoor might have played saviour to director Madhur Bhandarkar and UTV by stepping into the shoes left empty by Aishwarya Rai in the film Heroine. But the actress is surely being recompensed for it.
Recompensed a bit too extravagantly if one may say so. The actress who had reportedly demanded Rs 10 crore for the project has now settled for Rs 8 crore, the highest sum paid to a leading lady in Bollywood ever.
A source close to the project revealed, "After Aishwarya left the film midway due to her pregnancy, Madhur was left with very few options.

Mumbai is the city of dreams and B town is where it all comes true. Yes even for foreigners. Apart from Indians wanting to make it big in the film industry, there are models/actors from other countries who want to make it big here too. And somehow in the rat race to bag the finest projects, it is these foreign belle's and sometimes the men who get selected. Katrina Kaif in "Boom", Jacqueline Fernandez in "Aladin", Nargis Fakhri in "Rockstar" and most recently singer turned actor Ali Zafar too!

There was a time in the Hindi film industry when, if one kind of genre makes an entry, then you could see films made in that genre till the next genre comes about. And the reason used to be, "that's what the audience wants". Somewhere in the quest for a box office hit, an audience's sensibility was often compromised. But thankfully, the trend is changing, film makers are willing to push the boundaries and along with that, are actors who are even more willing to come out of their comfort zone.