Mumbai model is heroine of Shankardada Zindabad

It's official now. The pal... pal... pal... girl from Lage Raho Munnabhai, Vidya Balan, has refused to act in the Telugu remake of the same film Shankardada Zindabad despite the producers and the director, Prabhudeva, falling head over heels to convince her why she must do the film in Telugu too. But Balan refused to be cowed down by the emotional blackmailing of the Tollywood bigwigs. So now they've settled for a sexy Mumbai model Karishma Kotak. The shooting of the film is currently underway in and around Hyderabad and the grapevine has it that Prabhudeva has been doing a marvellous job in shaping up the film the way Chiranjeevi wants it. Must give it to the boneless wonder for perfectly honing his good PR skills.