They had once scorched the screen with their sizzling chemistry. But Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit, Bollywood’s ‘dhak dhak’ pair had not been the best of friends over a year. By refusing to play Sonam Kapoor’s mother in Anil’s desi version of ‘Freaky Friday’, Madhuri had reportedly angered her former co-star. Recently, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra decided to step in and sort out the problems. It was learnt that all is well again between the two actors. Now Chopra surely had vested interest in the patch up. The filmmaker, who completes thirty years in the industry, will be holding a first of its kind, retrospective of all his productions across various theatres in the subcontinent starting March 9. For the screening of his 1989 blockbuster ‘Parinda’, Chopra needed his lead actors Anil and Madhuri to walk the red carpet. He asked them to let bygones be. And both agreed, realising that they were angry over a rather trivial issue. The ‘trivial’ issue in questioned occurred when Anil offered Madhuri Jamie Lee Curtis’ role in his version of ‘Freaky Friday’. Anil had quite a few names in his mind for the role including Kirron Kher, Rekha and even Shabana Azmi. Sonam was to play the Lindsay Lohan’s character. Initially Madhuri had agreed but later had backed out citing date problems. According to a source, this had annoyed Anil. However, one phone call from Vidhu Vinod Chopra seems to have worked wonders. The once superhit Bollywood jodi will once again walk the red carpet.
This one’s for the red carpet
