It won’t be easy for Ranveer Singh to match comic pace with the irrepressible Govinda in the comic and edgy romcom <em>Kill Dill</em>. Realizing this, director Shaad Ali has scheduled a series of workshops for Singh to get a hang of Govinda’s legendary comic timing. Things have finally started improving in Govinda’s career. Not only is his new film with old-friend Pehlaj Nihalani about to be completed, Govinda has just signed his first project with Yashraj Films. He is understandably relieved, if not elated.

Shaadi over, Shaad Ali is gearing up to direct Kill Dill while his other dream project, a bio-pic on his legendary grandmother Lakshmi Sahgal is in the scripting process. Research on the Sahgal script is taking longer than expected. “I am treating my grandmother’s bio-pic as a family film. Both my parents would be actively involved in the entire process of making that film,” informs Shaad a week after his wedding.

50 traditional cooks were flown in to Mumbai from Kanpur to prepare Shaad Ali’s traditional wedding lunch on Sunday afternoon. Shaad Ali’s wedding with his designer-soulmate Aarti Patkar at her Bungalow in Bandra on 6 January brought all traffic to a halt. In what could be regarded as an unprecedented public display of Bollyood’s First Family’s celebratory instincts, the Big B Amitabh Bachchan, junior B Abhishek and the Bachchan <em>Bahu</em> Aishwarya all danced on the street for Shaad’s <em>baaraat</em>.

Having made his directorial debut in 2002 with Saathiya for Yash Raj Films (YRF), Shaad Ali has been roped in by the production house to direct their next project Kill Dil that will star Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar and Parineeti Chopra in lead roles. Shaad’s second film was <em>Bunty Aur Babli</em> made in 2005, brought together real-life father and son Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan alongside Rani Mukerji. The film turned out to be one of the biggest hits of the year.

T-Series and Vishesh Films’ Aashiqui 2 that stars Shraddha Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shaad Ali in the lead is being readied for release on 10 May, next year (2013). Earlier, in 1990, the two had joined hands to come out with the Rahul Roy, Anu Agarwal and Deepak Tijori-starrer <em>Aashiqui</em> that went to become a stupendous hit.