The 47-year-old choreographer-filmmaker said she had planned “Happy New Year” even before her directorial debut “Main Hoon Naa” and was preparing to film “HNY” immediately after “Om Shanti Om”. But then cracks began to appear between good friends Farah and Shahrukh, when SRK refused to feature in “Tees Maar Khan”, which was directed by Shirish Kunder, Farah’s husband.

It was in January this year when Farah’s husband Kunder was allegedly beaten up by SRK at a private party hosted by actor Sanjay Dutt. Shahrukh is said to have punched and slapped filmmaker Kunder as the latter’s digs at “Ra.One” had reached a boiling point.

Post patch up, Farah and King Khan decided to start work on HNY. When the film was to be made, Shahrukh Khan, John Abraham was confirmed for HNY, while the female lead was likely to be played by Katrina Kaif or Kareena Kapoor.

Now that the film is back on track, gossip mills are abuzz that Sonakshi Sinha and Parineeti Chopra are the two latest names that have popped up for the role of the leading lady. "We are not in talks with them (Sonakshi and Parineeti). We have not approached any one of them yet. I do meet Sonakshi regularly, she is beautiful and lovely. But we have not yet taken a call," Farah told PTI in an exclusive interview.

"Shahrukh has just come back from London so we need to sit and work out figure out as to who is right for that role. It is a big role and then there is only one heroine in the film," she said.

"I am very excited. We are hoping to create the magic that we did with our earlier films. We have Shahrukh and Boman Irani in the film and the other cast is not finalised yet. I can’t talk much about the project".

There were reports that four actors were to feature in “Happy New Year” including Shahrukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham.

The shooting for ‘Happy New Year’ will begin from December and then next schedule in January.