Professionally Uninhibited !

Bipasha Basu's loss is Jacqueline Fernandez's gain.

The Sri Lankan beauty has now replaced the dusky beauty, who lost out on a plum role in the Bhatt's Raaz 3 due to her temper tantrums over an item number in Murder 2.

Jackie will now be playing the leading lady in the sequel to Raaz (a film that made Bipasha famous) opposite Emraan Hashmi, the blue eyed boy of the Bhatt's Vishesh Films.

The role fell in Jackie's laps soon after her performance in Murder 2, that pleased the Bhatt brothers to no end.

Jacqueline has proved herself to be very uninhibited when it comes to her acting profession and has performed exceptionally well in the lovemaking scenes in Murder 2.

Bipasha's loss is Yana's gain - Murder 2

…And we were all looking forward to see Bengal babe Bipasha Basu as an item girl and looks like its going to be next time.

Latest update from ‘Murder 2’ side is that Bipasha has been replaced by Czech-Indian sizzler Yana Gupta. Basu said to had demanded a hefty price for featuring in the item song for the movie. However, the makers Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt were apparently displeased about it and instead picked up Yana for the track.

Yana garnered immense success with her winning performance in dance reality show ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’. Following that she was offered the item song of ‘Chalo Dilli’, the “Laila” remix and that is currently making with waves in the industry.

Coming back to ‘Murder 2’…. Incidentally the item sequence was first offered to Mallika Sherawat, who played the lead in the original. Later it went to Bips and now ball is in Yana’s court….

Chalo lets wait to see what kind of ‘killer’ performance she has stored in for us….

"Pantyless" Yana in Murder 2

Life positively seems to be going the high way for model-turned-actress Yana Gupta as the Czech beauty has found a new glory on the professional front.

Yana is all set to woo her fans as she has been chosen to perform a sizzling item number in ‘Murder 2’ and not the dusky actress Bipasha Basu.

Yana seems to have gained a lot of attention from the Bhatt camp that the sizzling starlet replaced the Bong beauty Bipasha to become the new item girl in the sequel to ‘Murder’.

Buzz has it that after Bipasha asked for a astronomical amount to do an item number in ‘Murder 2’, Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt decided to rope in Yana, after she completed the item song ‘Laila O Laila' in Lara Dutta’s ‘Chalo Dilli'.

Bips to sizzle in "Murder 2"

Tabloids have it that at the outset, the makers of the ‘Murder’ sequel had approached the ‘Murder’ heroine Mallika for the item song in the flick, but when the actress turned down the offer on grounds of fee, the filmmakers moved on to the dusky hottie Bipasha Basu.

When asked about the item song offer, Bipasha’s spokesperson said, "Right now, she has no dates for the item number's shoot. However, Bipasha would love to work with the Bhatts again, and yes...if the shoot works out during the time she is available, she will most definitely be doing a dance number in Murder 2."

Why did Mallika reject the item song offer?

Rumors has it that as the makers of ‘Murder 2’ had roped in Jacqueline Fernandez for the role of the leading lady instead of Mallika, who had starred in the original, the latter got offended.

As such, when she was offered the item song in the sequel, she demanded a high fee. But the filmmakers, reluctant to pay her the huge amount, switched on to Bips.

When asked why Jacqueline was preferred to Mallika, director Mohit Suri said, “I signed her as she fits the role very well. Murder is a brand and I feel Jacqueline carries the sensuality that the character required, very well.

“We wanted give the project a fresh look. The first Murder also had a new girl [Mallika], which worked.”

Mallika is extremely daring

Jacqueline Fernandez, who is starring opposite Emraan Hashmi in Murder 2, is all praise for Mallika Sherawat, the lead actress in Murder.

"I have seen Murder and I loved Mallika's performance. I think she is extremely daring and that's something we can all learn from her," Jacqueline, who was here for a promotional event of energy drink Burn at the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week (LFW), told reporters.

"As an actress, it's so nice to see someone so bold, so daring and so brave and I think that's what she stands for, which is great."

According to reports, the 25-year-old actress will be seen in a bold avatar, doing some intimate scenes with Emraan in the film.

Asked to comment on the film, she said: "When you get into a field like acting, a lot of other things become immaterial. So if the role and the script demands something, you do it."

Jacqueline, who has worked in films like Aladin and Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai, will also be seen in the sequel of Sajid Khan directorial Houseful.

So is she becoming the replacing queen?

"I don't think it's a matter of replacing anyone. I'm in a Murder sequel, which is a totally different narrative as compared to the original film. And Houseful 2 is also a completely different narrative from its original. It's got a completely different star cast for the girls this time. So it was not a matter of replacing anyone," the actress said.

"When people will watch Murder 2, they'll realize that it's such a different movie. So I don't think that they'll be able to compare even if they want to because both the films are not at all alike. If it was along the same story line or a continuation, then I would understand but here the situation is different," she added.

Jacqueline, who was crowned the Miss Sri Lanka Universe 2006, made her debut in Bollywood in 2009 with Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin. She is happy of finally getting plump projects in the industry.

"This year things are looking a little up for me, which is great because the kind of movies I'm doing now and the kind of work I'm getting, I think I've kind of found my place in Bollywood," she said.