

The dusky Nethra Raghuraman has signed Vikram Bhatt's forthcoming Sharan. Sahara officials at the editing table, one hears, are unhappy with Kaushik's directorial offering. Radhika Rao was supposed to direct this serial but Sridevi, who plays the lead, requested her favourite director to do the needful. The Sahara television channel is reportedly upset with Satish Kaushik's careless handling of their prestigious serial Hamari Bahu Malini Iyer. No names have yet been mentioned for the role of the fifth Pandava. Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan and Suniel Shetty are being considered to play four of the Pandavas. After playing the award-winning role of Paro in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas, Aishwarya Rai has bagged the powerful role of Draupadi in Rajkumar Santoshi's Rs 700 million Mahabharata.
