Fardeen Khan is generous - and John Abraham can vouch for that.

John was keen to do Suriya's role in the Hindi remake of Gautham Menon's 2003 Tamil blockbuster Kaakha Kaakha, about a cop on a vendetta trail. But the film's Hindi remake rights were with Fardeen.

Filmmaker Vipul Shah too saw Kaakha Kaakha and agreed to produce it for director Nishikant Kamat with John in the lead. Shah personally approached Fardeen and a deal was stuck without much delay or ado.

"Fardeen was gracious, supportive and generous. I didn't have to persuade him at all. When he saw how keen we were to re-make Kaakha Kaakha in Hindi, he gave over the remake rights to us without hesitation," Shah said.

"I don't see why we can't be more generous in this industry. When Ajay Devgn asked me to give over my title All The Best, I happily did so. It was meant to be the original title of my Aankhen. I didn't need it because at that time English titles were taboo," said Shah.

Did Fardeen ask to be signed as the lead of Kaakha Kaakha in Hindi?

"Fardeen didn't even suggest I sign him for the remake. It would've caused embarrassment for both of us if he had. I don't think we should ever mix business with pleasure. I'd love to work with Fardeen when I've the right project for him. But not be coerced emotionally into signing him," said Shah.

Though Shah is not divulging the amount that he paid Fardeen to acquire the remake rights, it is reliably learnt the amount was Rs 6 million.

"I gave Fardeen exactly the amount that he had paid for the remake rights of Kaakha Kaakha. He didn't expect anything more," he said.

Now Kamath is busy rewriting Kaakha Kaakha for a pan-India audience. Though the original Tamil film was shot only in India, the remake will be shot in many countries abroad.

John's action sequences will be better than Suriya's in the original.

As for Asin signing the role opposite John, Shah clarifies: "Genelia d'Souza was never considered. I don't know why it was written so. Asin was Nishi [Nishikant]'s choice. He thought she was perfect for the part. The choice had nothing to do with my comfort level with her during the making of London Dreams.

"I don't care how many projects she turned down recently or that she was sitting home for eight months. I'm glad she's doing our film. The film is an acid test for Nishi. So far he has been identified with strong offbeat films. Kaakha Kaakha is his first full-fledged commercial film. And John-Asin is a fresh pair. Always exciting for audiences."

Ilayathalapathy Vijay’s son Sanjay who made an impressive debut in the song sequence Naan Adichaa Thangamatte… in Vettaikaran is said to be once again doing a film with his dad.

The grapevine has it that Sanjay is making a cameo appearance as the son of the character played by Vijay in the climax of his under production Siddique directed Kavalkaran.

The shooting of the film is taking place in Kumbakonam.

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on Monday hit out at reports that she and her husband Raj Kundra are not the co-owners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) team Rajasthan Royals.

She expressed her resentment on microblogging site Twitter, tweeting: "Woke up and heard on TV that we are not co-owners of RR! Only want to say there is NO DOUBT that RAJ is a stake holder and I am the Brand ambassador, This IS THE TRUTH!

According to Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Shashank Manohar, Shilpa and Raj's names do not even figure in the IPL team's shareholding papers. The brewing IPL controversy has put Shilpa's team under the scanner for allegedly being partly owned by Lalit Modi, who was suspended as BCCI vice president and IPL commissioner late on Sunday night.

Senior actor Mukesh has decided not to do any more roles as father characters, after his latest movie 'Mummy And Me'. The actor seems to have been disappointed by the promotional and previews of the movie which site it as an emotional story of the intense relationship between a mother and her daughter.

The presence of a caring father, who is an integral part of the plot seems to have been left out by the makers who gave more importance to characters played by Urvashi and Archana Kavi.

Directed by Jithu Joseph, the movie is expected to be in theatres by the first week of May. It is only by then that we can access whether the character played by Mukesh is such a highlight of the flick.

Like every other film industry in India, Mollywood too witnessed the landing of many star-sons, of which majority couldn't prove good as their star fathers. The big list of such entries include Shanavas, Saikumar, Meghanathan, Jishnu, Fahad Fazil and Saji Soman. Mollwyood being a peculiar case, the very few who could find a good name and space for themselves include a very few, the latest being Saikumar, Prithviraj and Indrajith.

Superstar Mohanlal's son Pranav had been in a passing shot in the movie 'Sagar Alias Jackey', which gives a hint that the star son will land up in Mollwyood cinema, in a couple of years. Anyhow, what we are on is about the buzz around Megastar Mammootty's son ‘Dulquar Salman’ who is all set to be in movies, in a short while. As per the Tamil director Lingusamy who is a close friend to Mammootty, the megastar has already demanded him to cast his son in his first Malayalam film. Mammootty seems to have agreed Lingusamy that if needed, he will come-up in a guest role to support his son, in this new movie.

It is not yet clear when will Lingusamy, who is presently busy around his Tamil projects, find time to start off his first Mollywood movie. And if it happens in the near future, we may soon witness Dulquar Salman as a star material, probably rechristened with a more popular name.