The bold and beautiful Ileana D'Cruz returned to Telugu cinema last year with Amar Akbar Anthony and gave her fans a reason to rejoice. Sadly, the film turned out to be a disaster of epic proportions which sank without a trace. To make matters worse, the Goan beauty too did not make much of an impact with her performance. Now, it seems that she is set to bag her next Tollywood movie.

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According to the latest reports, the Kick beauty might soon be roped in to play the female lead opposite Manchu Vishnu in the Dhee sequel to be helmed by Srinu Vaitla. Apparently, he wanted to cast Rakul Preet as the female lead but he changed his mind for reasons best known to him.

Earlier there were reports that Rakul Preet Singh has given green signal to Manchu Vishnu and Srinu Vaitla. And now it is being heard that the director doesn’t want Spyder beauty Rakul Preet Singh and wants to rope Ileana D Cruz once again. The hottie Ileana D Cruz has also worked with Manchu Vishnu for Saleem and with Srinu Vaitala for Amar Akbar Anthony and both the movies were bombed at the box office. But Srinu Vaitala is very eager to rope Ileana in his upcoming directorial venture.

In case you did not know, Dhee was a popular romantic-comedy that hit screens in 2007 and emerged as a success. The film featured Manchu Vishnu and Genelia D Souza in the lead. The movie was his big commercial success and was also one of the most successful films of Tollywood of 2007. It was released on 13th April 2007 and turned out hit at the box office.

In the meantime, Ileana currently has the Bollywood movie Pagalpanti in her bag. Touted to be a romantic-comedy, the film will see her act alongside Arshad Warsi and Sanjay Dutt. On the other-side, Rakul Preet Singh is waiting for the release of her upcoming Hindi movie De De Pyaar day. Apart from this movie, Rakul Preet will also be seen in Manmandudu 2.

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