Mumbai, Sept 19: Rani Mukherjee might soon be seen with Ben Affleck in a new film. The movie being talked about is Bombay California, a love story by avant-garde director Dev Benegal, who shot to fame, with the brilliant Split Wide Open. After making a well-received documentary on Shabana Azmi, Benegal is back at a feature. It's a romantic comedy in English, with three characters -- a man, a woman and an Ambassador car.
It'll feature Rani with either Ben Affleck or Ethan Hawke. Both the Hollywood pinup idols have apparently consented, but Affleck is more likely to be Rani's co-star.
"J Lo had better watch out!" laughs Benegal referring to the singer, who is the real life love interest of Affleck.
"She can keep Ben!" Rani laughs throatily and says. "I only want one thing from him. I want to meet J Lo! I'm a big fan."
Incidentally, Rani would be the third actress to team up with a foreign actor in the last one year.

While Aishwarya Rai is doing Gurinder Chaddha's Bride & Prejudice with Jaoquin Phoenix, Chupke Se girl Masumi, is doing German director Veit Halmer's Gate To Heaven with Russian actor Valery Nikolaev.

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The casting crossover continues in Bollywood.

Even while Hollywood's Bo Derek makes a fabulously fleeting appearance in Kaizad Gustad's eagerly awaited "Boom", several Hollywood stars are going to be seen with Bollywood actors.

Baywatch star Brande Rodericks plays the American lead opposite Ritesh Deshmukh in Vashu Bhagnani's ready-for-release Out Of Control. Shot entirely in the US, the film is about an Indian youth caught between an Indian and an American bride.
"Rodericks, of course, plays the American bride," says Bhagnani as he puts the finishing touches to his "most unusual film to date..."
Out Of Control looks young and trendy. I want to target it at the hip city crowds. My son Jackie, whom I'm going to launch as an actor in the next two years, loves the film. And he knows what the young like."
How would Indian audiences accept an Anglo-Saxon heroine in [Out Of Control]? Earlier Raj Kapoor, Kamal Haasan and Dev Anand had imported heroines for Mera Naam Joker, Yeh To Kamaal Ho Gaya and Swami Dada".