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Rowdy Rathore’s maverick director Prabhu Deva is all set to do a Sonakshi Sinha on Shruti Haasan. The so-far luckless in Bollywood star from Luck will be relaunched in style and with substance to go, by Prabhu opposite Kumar Taurani’s son Girish in a hard-hitting massy love story that begins shooting next month.

Prabhu Deva and Shruti go back a long way. Shruti’s father Kamal Haasan has worked closely with Prabhu’s choreographer-father.

Says a source, “Prabhu has taken on himself the onus of re-launching Shruti in Hindi. ”

This ends the hunt for a suitable co-star for producer Kumar Taurani’s son Girish.

The untitled film is said to be “no Romeo & Juliet” romance since we’ve too many of those.

Efforts were on to find a completely new girl to star opposite the Taurani scion. But now they’ve gone for what is being called a “semi-newcomer”

Says a source, “Both Kumar Taurani and Prabhu Deva were keen on a new girl. But then it was felt that working on two newcomers simultaneously would take attention away from the male debutant’s launch.

So the team decided on Shruti who is relatively new to Hindi cinema. But she’s already an established star in the South. She has done a couple of Hindi films that didn’t work. All she needs is that one hit. ”

Confirming Shruti’s casting in his post-Rowdy venture Prabhu Deva says, “We were thinking of a completely new girl. But Shruti seems a better option. She has everything that it takes. ”

When asked what kind of a film the Girish-Shruti vehicle would be Prabhu Deva quipped, “As massy as Rowdy Rathore. That’s the only language I know. It’d targeted at single-theatre audiences. But also for the multiplexes. ”

Prabhu has moved to Mumbai as he has three back-to-back Hindi films to direct. But he hasn’t bought property as yet.

“I am staying in Boney Kapoor’s old place in Green Acres as they’ve shifted to a new bungalow, ” informs Prabhu.

Dancer, choreographer, actor and now director Prabhu Deva is really going places. On Sunday evening he flew to Bangkok to shoot an ad with cricketer Virat Kohli.

A first for Prabhu Deva. He has never shot an ad before.

Said the multi-faceted Deva, “I am excited because a story has to be told within less than a minute. That’s a challenge because I’ve never shot an ad before, and that too with someone as well-known as Virat who is not from cinema. ”

Not willing to divulge any more details Prabhu clammed up. But one got to know the Prabhu-Virat combination gets together for an ad for a shoe company.

“It’s got plenty of action, and a little bit of dancing. Virat wanted to be projected as a filmy hero, ” says a source.

While Rowdy Rathore continues its success romp at the boxoffice its director Prabhu Deva has no time to revel in the ecstacy of a boxoffice bonanza.

In fact Prabhu is currently the most stressed filmmaker in the country, and not because he has three back-to-back Hindi projects starring newcomer Girish Taurani, Shahid Kapoor and Ajay Devgn lined up for direction but because Prabhu is searching for a suitable match, not for himself but his next hero newcomer Girish Taurani, producer Kumar Taurani’s son.

Kumar Taurani who has quite a clout in the film industry wanted to cast an established heroine with his son so that Prabhu Deva could focus on directing the newcomer and not worry too much about what the leading lady is doing in front of the camera.

There is a major hitch, though. Girish is all of 22, but looks much younger. Every heroine who has been approached to star opposite the Taurani scion didn’t quite fit. Katrina Kaif, Genelia d’Souza and Parineeti Chopra were sounded out and rejected because, well, they didn’t fit the bill.

So it looks like young Girish would have to make do with a newcomer.

“What to do?” laments Prabhu Deva. “Girish is 22. But he looks 19. None of the established heroines looks compatible with him. So we had to drop the original plan of a big heroine with the newcomer to create a balanced boxoffice equation. ”

A birdie chirps to say that Prabhu Dheva is planning to set up home in Mumbai

As the choreographer-director has numerous assignments in Bollywood, flying back home every few days to Chennai is proving to be tiring for him. He will be renting a home in Lokhandwala.