With three flops in a row, Kareena Kapoor hasn't had a good 2001, but that hasn't stopped Casanova of Bollywood, Akshay Kumar to root for her. Grapevine has it that Akki baba seems to be so impressed with Bebo that he recommends her name whenever he can, to act opposite him.

Another reason for his fondness for Kareena could be an ego kick about working with the younger actresses, after having done films with ‘oldies' like Tabu, Shilpa Shetty and Karisma Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit et al.