It’s amazing the lengths those in the industry will go to in order to get into or out of item numbers and the reasons for them.

Apparently, Goldie Behl already has his leading man for his new film Drona, that being his childhood friend Abhishek Bachchan, this even after their debacle Bas Itna Sa Khwab. He has also cast Priyanka Chopra as his leading lady. Behl’s dilemma now, is finding an item girl for a dance number in the film.

One would think, that when Behl, through Bachchan, offered the item number to Aishwarya she would jump at the chance to be in another film with her hubby. Not so. Ash took only a minor consideration to the idea before reportedly refusing both of them.

So, the dynamic duo of Bachchan and Behl then reportedly approached the dusky damsel Bipasha Basu. All seemed well, even though Basu’s condition was that the song would outshine her performance in Beedi Jalaiyle.

But things turned awry once again when Bips started getting a little nervous about Chopra edging her out of the limelight, when she realized that Priyanka would be sharing screen space and joining her in shaking a leg in the same number. This resulted in Bips stepping back and opting out of Drona.

So as they say in the industry, “It’s back to the drawing board.”