/>India's most successful filmmaking concern is now picking out the top-ranking stars from the Bollywood heiarachy and signing them on for lucrative 1-2 film deals.

Yashraj's latest acquisition is Kareena Kapoor, the spunky seductress who was unofficially ostracized from the banner after she turned down the offer to do Kal Ho Na Ho with Yashraj's blue-eyed boy Shah Rukh Khan.

Of late Kareena has been on a massive fence-mending spree. She not only agreed to do a minuscule guest appearance with Shah Rukh in Don she's also been invited into SRK's favourite banner.

Kareena has just completed shooting for Yashraj Films new project Tashan.

Revealing details Kareena says, "It's a love triangle featuring Kareena with Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan to be directed by Victor who wrote Dhoom and Dhoom 2. I've never played a character like this before. It's my hottest and sexiest avatar to date."

What made Yashraj approach the banner's unapproachable? Smiles the source, " Yashraj wants to sign all the big stars. With Kareena there was never any real problem. In fact at the very beginning of her career Yash Chopra was supposed to direct her in a heroine-oriented film.

That project fell through. Then she worked with them win Mujhse Dosti Karoge where she was originally supposed to play a tomboy. The role grew into an ultra-glamorous one.

Again now after many years Kareena has been approached by Aditya Chopra because there's a paucity of glamorous actresses. Sure they've Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and Aishwarya Rai. But how many films can these do, considering Yashraj plans to produce 5-6 top-notch films every year?"

Interestingly two years ago Aishwarya too was similarly isolated from the Yashraj banner. She was almost finalized for Veer-Zara and then given the go-by. It was the item song Kajra re in Bunty Aur Babli that brought her back into the Yashraj camp.

Says the source, "Kareena luckily had the dates in the first half of 2007 because Mani Rathnam's Lajjo with Aamir Khan has been shifted to later during the year."