Hritik-Bhansali team up?

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is going to do a film with Hritik Roshan. Both of them have been wanting to work with each other. Bhansali has two projects whose scripts have already been developed--Bajirao Mastani and Heera Mandi. The former is a film Bhansali wanted to do with Salman Khan and Ashwariya/Kareena but is now unsure of because it would be in the same genre as Jodha Akbar.

My source tells me Bhansali is keen to do Heera Mandi but trouble is Mahesh Bhatt is also planning a film on the same subject (Heera Mandi was a famous whorehouse in Lahore visited by top rung artistes, actors, and government officials).

Hritik is one of the few people who loved Saawairya because he paid heed to Rani Mukherjee's opening voice over in the film that "this story is not of this world", that the film is a fantasy. He admires Bhansali and has so much faith in him as a film maker that he is willing to say yes to a project even without reading a script.

But considering that Hritik starts shooting Anurag Basu's Kites next month and plans to start on the Krrish sequel later this year, the Bhansali project is unlikely to take off by year end.