That marriage and motherhood has absolutely zero impact on a Bollywood actress’s career is being proved by Kareena Kapoor Khan time and again. After the super successful chick flick Veere Di Wedding, Kareena has signed two big movies with two of Bollywood’s top heroes – Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar this year. While there have been reports of Kareena starring opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Salute, the biopic on astronaut Rakesh Sharma (the only Indian to ever travel to space), directed by Mahesh Mathai and produced by Ronnie Screwwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur, nobody has confirmed it. When quizzed about it the actress has told the media earlier, “Whatever film I choose I will let everyone know but at the right time.”Now we can tell you that Kareena has not only been finalised to play Madhu, Rakesh Sharma’s wife in Salute, but the actress will be signing on the dotted line this week! This will be the second movie Kareena Kapoor Khan has signed after Veere Di Wedding this year – the earlier being one of Karan Johar‘s home productions opposite Akshay Kumar. SRK and Kareena will be working together after seven years. They had last acted together as husband and wife in Ra.One (2011).
In a film, various issues including remuneration and dates need to be worked out first before an announcement is made. And Kareena and Shah Rukh coming Ra.One is very big news. Salute is a film which Aamir Khan opted out of, making way for Shah Rukh. Interestingly, some roles and movies that other stars, including Salman Khan in Chak De India and Baazigar, Aamir Khan in Darr, Ajay Devgn in Karan Arjun and Hrithik Roshan in Swades, left and Shah Rukh stepped into, went on to become Shah Rukh’s career-defining milestones.
