Both Darsheel Safary and Kareena Kapoor have one thing in common. No, not Saif Ali Khan, but Aamir Khan.

Darsheel, who with his rocking performance and bucktoothed grin, won over the audiences of Taare Zameen Par, even had producer-director Aamir eating out of his hands. Aamir readily admitted defeat in all his pre-release interviews and said that Darsheel was the hero of the film.

Now, Kareena Kapoor may be on the arm of Saif Ali Khan, but admits to being a die-hard fan of another Khan, Aamir.

It is another matter that Kareena went on record in her early stardom days that she would give anything to star with Shah Rukh Khan, who she claimed was a peformer without parallel.

Okay, so Aamir adores Darsheel, and Kareena adores Aamir. But this wonderful equation works out like this: Darsheel has said in his latest interview that he adores Kareena!

Being nominated under the Best Actor category at the Filmfare Awards, little Darsheel Safary’s moving performance had him competing with four adult superstars, including Shah Rukh, whom in an earlier interview he precociously dismissed as no competition!

Ask all those who have watched Taare Zameen Par which actor rules their heart and the answer is Darsheel Safary. Of course, SRK is not one to give any quarter to anyone, adult or child, and bagged the Best Actor award anyway.

In a recent television interview Darsheel candidly admitted that he was a Kareena Kapoor fan and the one thinbg he was looking forward to, after Taare Zameen Par, was to meet the vivacious actress in person at some award function.

After Darsheel, it is Kareena’s turn with Aamir as she will be acting opposite the pint sized superstar in Raju Hirani’s next film. Reportedly Kareena is very excited about being paired opposite the intense Khan.

Kareena has worked with SRK and Salman and now Saif, too. But never with Aamir before. Her elder sister Karisma had paired magnificently with Aamir in Raja Hindustani years ago. With Raju’s film, she should make a fabulous pair with Aamir.

Trade insiders are equally axcited at the prospect and are touting the Aamir-Kareena duo to be bigger than the first-time pairing of Aamir and Kajol in Fanaa. If Kajol was making a kind of comeback as numero uno, today it is Kareena who is ruling the roost.

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan is in trouble over alleged illegal farmland ownership, officials said Wednesday, as the Indian film industry’s top star battles similar legal woes.

The revenue minister in the western state of Maharashtra said Khan faced an investigation after buying agricultural land in the scenic Maval region of Pune district.

“Every Indian citizen has the right to purchase agricultural land provided he has documents to claim that he is a farmer by profession,” Narayan Rane said.

Maharashtra, like many other Indian states, restricts the purchase of agricultural land to legitimate farmers — a class that screen star Khan insists he belongs to.

“I am an actor by profession but I come from an agricultural family,” he was quoted as saying by the Times of India newspaper.

“My father, along with his brothers and sisters, own agricultural property in the form of mango orchards in Shahbad area of Uttar Pradesh. My family have been agriculturists as per the law and guidelines,” he said.

Khan joins Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan in facing trouble over farming.

Bachchan was dealt a setback Friday when a court ruled he did not qualify as a farmer — a status that entitled him to buy a 20-acre farm in Maharashtra.

A lawsuit alleged that Bachchan had used his political contacts in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which his wife represents in parliament, to get himself designated as a farmer and allow him to buy the land.

The court found that a certificate identifying the 64-year-old actor as a farmer since 1983 was forged.

On the eve of Bollywood Filmfare Awards, Hrithik Roshan and Kajol were awarded the Best Actor and Best Actress award in the popular section for Dhoom 2 and Fanaah respectively.

The Critics award for the Best Actor was given to Aamir Khan for Rang De Basanti while Kareena Kapoor won the Critics Award for Best Actress for Omkara. Lage Raho Munnabhai won the Best Film Critics award and Rakeysh Mehra won the Best Director award. The ceremony was held at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai. Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Karan Johar and Juhi Chawla hosted the award function.