Mumbai: Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif is set to play a female lead role in upcoming Hindi movie, Half Girl Friend directed by Mohit Suri, see the complete news.

Katrina Kaif is sending text messages to Half Girlfriend director Mohit Suri that she would love to play the hoity-toity girl from South Delhi, who falls head over heels for a Bihari guy in St. Stephen’s College. Alia Bhatt was the first choice for the female lead in Mohit’s cinematic version of Chetan Bhagat’s novel by the same name. Kriti Sanon’s name too was doing the rounds.

We just have to wait and watch who the final girl to play the lead becomes and whether Katrina will be able to edge out Alia and Kriti to be the one or not. Half Girlfriend is a famous novel written by Chetan Bhagat and as we know, Mohit Suri is directing a film based on this 2014 novel and it would be a romantic and comedy flick.

The movie will be slated to release on 2016 and it is being produced by Ekta Kapoor. The movie also features, Varun Dhawan in main lead. Already Chetan’s two novels have been made a films and this time Half Girlfriend is also on wheels to be made into a flick.

However, no official confirmation regarding Katrina Kaif role is not yet announced and the book had earlier earned a lot of praises from its young readers and no wonder, the flick is eagerly awaited.