Salman Khan, Vivek Oberoi in 'Sher Wars'?

Megastar Salman Khan might soon have competition concerning who goes to be the ‘tiger’ in Bollywood.

While Salman is shooting for Yash Raj Films’ Ek Tha Tiger and Sohail Khan is reportedly coming up with Sher Khan along with his brother, the actor’s old-time ‘frenemy’ Vivek Oberoi, is alleged to own gone ahead and signed on a movie known as Sher in the week, to be directed by Soham Shah.

Whether Vivek can play the title role in it or not is nevertheless to be ascertained.

But Vivek who is already on a high with 5 films specifically Krrish 3, Kismat Love Paisa Dilli, Zilla Ghaziabad, Jayanta Bhai and a Masti sequel below his belt, is reported to start shooting for Sher this month itself.

When asked Bollywood PR specialist Dale Bhagwagar regarding these ‘star wars’ doubtless to show into ‘Sher wars’ within the media, he brushed it off saying, “What distinction will it make? Indian media has seen a paradigm shift within the last 5 years. Media may be a business currently and every one so-called ‘wars’ are simply a part of sensible selling.”

“Why single out Salman Khan or Vivek Oberoi? Bollywood may be a terribly massive and nuclear family. there's house for everybody. Yahan sab sher hai!” he said.

Where's the money honey?

Vivek Oberoi and Mallika Sherawat are apparently yet to return their signing amounts to the makers after their film gets shelved 

Buzz is that with a film by producer-duo Nadir and Nariman Irani getting shelved, Vivek Oberoi and Mallika Sherawat, who had been cast for the project, are now reluctant to return their signing amounts.

Sagar Ballary who was said to be directing that film, is now making another film with Vivek.Sources say that the casting for the film was being finalised around the time Ballary’s Hum Tum Shabana was being released. “Some time after the film’s release, Vivek confirmed for the Nadir Irani production venture.And he was paid a signing amount of about Rs 50 lakh. Soon afterwards, the makers approached Mallika Sherawat and confirmed her too,” points out our source.

Apparently after that, Vivek wanted some changes in the script. 

“So Sagar had to re-write those parts. But when the director went back to him again, Vivek had other issues with the script. 

After a while of going back and forth, all work on the film came to a standstill. Eventually, the film was shelved,” explains our source.The source further tells us that after the production was aborted, neither Vivek nor Mallika have bothered to return the signing amounts to Irani.Mallika’s spokesperson confirmed that she was indeed approached for the film. “But she hasn’t signed it, and so hasn’t been paid anything. The question of returning the signing amount doesn’t arise,” he shrugged. Irani, Vivek and Ballary remained unavailable for comment.