Kareena Kapoor’s Costumes in Heroine Cost Rs. 1.3 crore!

Posted by admin on Oct 16th, 2011 | 0 comments

Not only is Kareena Kapoor ruling the roost in Bollywood, but after bagging UTV production’s Heroine, she is also getting mileage like never before. Apparently, the director of Heroine, Madhur Bhandarkar has earmarked a pricey budget of around Rs. 1.3 crore for Kareena Kapoor’s costumes in the film.

The actress who is going to play a top Bollywood heroine in the film, will be wearing about 150 costumes in the film; all of them will be designed by her favorite designer Manish Malhotra. He has been the trendsetter for female costumes in Bollywood, even since the Rangeela days. He had also designed the costumes for Priyanka Chopra starer Fashion, which was also directed by Madhur.

A source said, “Madhur’s earliest films used to have a total budget of around a crore. In Heroine, Kareena’s costumes alone will cost Madhur and his co-producers UTV over a crore. The costliest movie directed by Madhur, this movie has a budget of nearly Rs. 20 crore. It is evident that the director is not going to leave any room to make sure that the movie has a glossy look.”

“Bollywood stars are never seen wearing the same dress on two occasions. Many a time, if an event is a long-drawn affair, they even go for multiple changes of wardrobe,” the source added. The shooting of the movie started last week itself and is due to release in 2012.

Kareena Kapoor has decided to give a huge chunk of dates to the director and seems to be excited with the way the movie is shaping up. However, she had given the movie a lot of thought before she had replaced Aishwarya Rai. The project had gone first to her but she denied it because there were some steamy sex scenes in the film which she wanted to avoid doing. Finally, the director met Aishwarya Rai, who consented. The movie was launched with much fanfare, and Ash’s photos were all over the promotion material even before the movie was on floors. However, days after the shoot commenced, Ash announced that she was pregnant and had to walk out of the film.

Madhur wanted to shelve the film but then decided to take it up with Kareena again, who obliged. He had even reworked portions of the script and the Bodyguard actress readily gave her consent.