The fall of ‘Eklavya’ should be ringing alarm bells for the ‘Parineeta’ girl. After ‘Guru’ and ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’, this is Vidya’s third setback. Worse, her mentors Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani seem to have deserted her too. One knows for a fact that there’s been no discussion with Balan for ‘Munna Bhai Chala America’, the third in Munnabhai series.

The casting of the film is unclear [barring Sanju and Arshad, of course]. “I am working on the characters,” Director Raj Kumar Hirani states, but makes clear that Vidya is not there.

”No, Vidya isn’t part of this film. This time, Munna falls in love with an American. We are casting a blonde as Munna’s love interest,” he says.