Wht a life!

Director Sanghamitra Chaudhuri is hopping mad. Busy with the last-minute preparations of her third Bengali film, she was in for a rude shock when told that there were reports of she directing a film with Shoaib Akhtar and Hansika in the lead!
���������������������������It���������������������������s such a lie! I���������������������������m here in Kolkata during the Pujas.How can I also be shooting at the same time in a village in Punjab? I admit that there were talks about doing Main Aur Meri Himmat with Shoaib Akhtar and Hansika. Way back in 2007, we had decided to make a film on how a Pakistani cricketer falls in love with an Indian girl while touring our country. I had met Shoaib to discuss the script. We had even offered him Rs 2 crore to be a part of the project. Hansika was offered Rs 25 lakh.
We had zeroed in on Hansika because she had an innocent face. Besides being a good actor, her roots are in Punjab. She would be just right for the role of Himmat, the cricket-obsessed girl in MAMH. Just before we were supposed to start the project, the IPL began. Shoaib was contract-bound not to do anything during that period. Benazir Bhutto���������������������������s death and the terror attack in Mumbai subsequently disbalanced the cultural ties between India and Pakistan.
Finally, the producers backed out of the project,��������������������������� she said.
Meanwhile, Sanghamitra got busy with Jeena: The Endless Love, a Bengali film on domestic violence. ���������������������������Sometime around 2007, I had gone to do a recce in Punjab. I was also supposed to go down to Lahore. However, we didn���������������������������t shoot a single scene of the film,��������������������������� she said, adding, ���������������������������If one has to make the film now, it will mean reviving it from scratch though Rs 5 lakh has already been spent on pre-production.���������������������������