Actor turned producer Arbaaz Khan dumps his wife Malaika Arora for brother Salman Khan’s girlfriend Katrina Kaif. Arbaaz Khan is to delve in to film production for the first time and has decided to cast Katrina Kaif in the female lead role. Arbaaz wife Malaika Arora Khan is not happy at all.

According to source, “Apparently, Malaika was supposed to be the lead actress in Arbaaz Khan’s first home production flick. But with the recent success achieved by Katrina, Arbaaz has decided that it would be a better option financially to replace his wife with his brother’s future wife”.

The source added, “As one would expect this has not gone down well with Malaika who is now threatening to leave him if he does the intended, Malaika is very jealous of Katrina and it is common knowledge that the two ladies share cold vibes”

My life revolves around my kid and I laid down my conditions that I would the film only within the city limits and that I would not work for long hours. Suneil Shetty agreed to my terms and conditions and that’s how I landed up with this role, ” says Malaika. When asked about taking EMI in real life Malaika says, “Who does not need a loan. However, yes I would not take a loan to lead a luxurious life. My character Nancy in the film is a today’s girl who starts taking loans to lead a high life, ” she informs.

The actress has been busy doing dance numbers, hosting shows and facing the camera for commercials says she was a bundle of nerves when she gave her first shot. “But it went off well. I have been juggling my role as a mother, as an actress and as a hostess. Life is all about juggling roles especially for a woman like an EMI” she says and laughs.

There were quite a few naughty incidents on the episode as well. Arbaaz cracked a joke around a condom, something which has to be seen and heard during the show! Meanwhile, he also answered the question around how he has maintained a clean record over the years, with no link-ups whatsoever, in spite of being in the world of glamor for so long.Arbaaz and Malaika do get serious though while talking about their tryst with media a few months back when a large section went hammers and tongs on them for their staged ‘divorce’ saga. They did resent the fact that if media had its way, it could represent or misrepresent things at its own will. Ruing over the fact that if it wants, media could destroy a celebrity’s reputation in a matter of hours, Arbaaz and Malaika were left wondering if media indeed had any role to play in interfering in someone’s personal life.Malaika and skimpy outfits go together. Arbaaz answered Sajid’s query on what he felt about her choice of outfits and whether his entire family was indeed liberal about the way she carried herself.Arbaaz and Sajid revealed one little known fact about their younger days. Once upon a time, they attended classes of acting Guru Kishore Namit Kapoor.

The two confess for the first time in public that they used to trouble Kapoor by giving him blank calls on numerous occasions. Well, what was the reason behind that? The two spill the beans! On asked about the more handsome of the two Khans, Malaika didn’t blink an eyelid and replied that she did find Arbaaz far more handsome than Salman Khan. Arbaaz shared an interesting anecdote around the first award that he got for the film Daraar. As he collected his Filmfare trophy for his villainous role and returned to his seat, yesteryear villain Ranjeet, in his own colorful manner, asked him to hand over the ‘nude girl’ to him!
For the best and worst scenes of Arbaaz, Daraar and Hello Brother were the chosen films respectively. However for Malaika, while Chaiyya Chaiyya was the unanimous choice for the best dance number that she has been a part of, the choice for the worst track of hers was quite a shocker. Which was this number? Any guesses?
To know about this, tune in to Sajid’s Superstars at 8:00 PM, Saturday on the newly launched channel COLORS!

Speaking to a news daily Malaika said, “I was busy shooting at Film City (for Star One’s Zara Nachke Dikha) and didn’t have the time to attend Katrina’s birthday party. In any case I wasn’t aware about any party till the last minute.”

“We are all very excited. I have seen bit of the show and it looks great. Salman bhai is having a great time and that’s important for the show,” says Malaika.

Both of you have been projected as publicity hounds.
Malaika and I don’t need to resort to such cheap publicity. I had my reservations about the concept right from the beginning but Ponds said they had it all covered — they’d protect and back us. They were supposed to do damage control on the same day as the break-up rumours but somehow that didn’t happen.

A lot of people feel it was because of the big money (Rs 1.5 crore) offered to you both that made you say yes to such a stunt…
That’s not true. Why would Ponds take people with strong images to tarnish them in the media? Nobody is blaming the marketing strategists that came out with the concept. It’s like in bad films, people blame the stars but not the director. Malaika and I did goof up and we are very sorry about it. We accept that it was our fault but it will never happen again.

Did Malaika and her family know that the break-up story was just a marketing strategy?
No. Our families are very upset and hurt. We didn’t keep them in the loop but we never thought that our images would be destroyed and we would be affected so badly. We regret that we did it. We apologise to our families for hurting them. It was just a strategy, which we thought was cute but we never thought it would get so ugly. In the process, we became the scapegoats. It’s an eye-opener for all celebrities today so that they too don’t get taken in by a publicity strategy of a big company. We fell prey to them — but that will never happen again.