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Advani set to film 12-star extravaganza

By Subhash K Jha, Indo-Asian News Service

Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) After the blockbuster "Kal Ho Na Ho", nothing seemed to go right for director Nikhil Advani. Till Salman Khan came to his rescue. 

All this while Nikhil was actually being shunned by almost everybody. After his bitter break with Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, all his projects seemed to go awry. 

Project after project, including a desi version of Louisa Alcott's "Little Women", fell through.

Only when Salman Khan agreed to back Nikhil's next project that things began to fall in place for the ostracized director. 

And now Nikhil is all set to make his next film - a segmented love story about various love affairs running concurrently in the plot, a la Richard Curtis' "Love Actually". 

Nikhil's film goes by the quaint and deceptively old-world title of "Salaam-E-Ishq".

Though the title has been lifted from the 1978 chart-buster from the Amitabh Bachchan-Rekha starrer, "Muqaddar Ka Sikandar", "Salaam-e-Ishq" will be a fiercely contemporary take on relationships and mores.

Salman Khan-Priyanka Chopra, Anil Kapoor-Juhi Chawla, Sohail Khan-Perizaad Zorabian, Akshaye Khanna-Ayesha Takia, and Govinda and South African actress Shanon Esra have been pencilled for what promises to be a fresh take on the puzzle known as love.

But the most surprising pair in the film would be cool-dude John Abraham and the classic Indian beauty Vidya Balan. The combination is already being talked about as a cool synthesis of the West and the best.