Thursday, 7th August, 2014, 05:40 PM IST

Sources say that upcoming queen of Bollywood Alia Bhatt is all set to share screen-space with Sushant Singh Rajput in Homi Adajania’s next to be produced by Illuminati Films.

 

The source says that, “This is a fresh pairing. Alia and Sushant have not worked with each other so far, but both have shown a lot of promise in their recent films. They have now been signed on to star in Homi Adajania’s next film”.  Both the actors and director remained un availablefor comment, but trade analysts are already interested in this fresh casting.

 

Trade analyst, Amod Mehra says, “After ‘2 States’, Alia has proved that she can exert a box-office pull. With this casting, she has now been paired with almost all young stars except Ranveer Singh and Aditya Roy Kapur."

 

Upcoming projects for Alia include Vikas Bahl’s film ‘Shaandar’ with Shahid Kapoor and Ayan Mukerji’s Ranbir Kapoor starrer. For Sushant Singh Rajput, who shot to fame with ‘Kai Po Che!’, his upcoming movies include Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘P.K.’, Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshi’ — shooting for which is almost complete — and Shekhar Kapur’s ‘Paani’ that goes on the floors on December 1.