By Subhash K Jha
Sonu Sood has been cast as  the male lead opposite  Alexandra Maria Lara who  plays the  female lead opposite  Tim Roth in  legendary Godfather  director  Francis  Ford Coppola's latest film  Youth  Without Youth  .
This is the first time  that an Indian actor  gets to play the lead with sucha  major Hollywood heroine.

Sonu Sood and  his American  co-star  currently  sharing   extremely warm vibes in Dubai where they're shooting for  Ali Mustafa's  City Of Life.

The  pair  are  said to have  plenty  of   love-making scenes to do.
But Sood denies them . "After Sheesha  where I  had  torrid  scenes with Neha Dhupia  I  took a  conscious  decision to avoid  love  and smooching scenes. I'm a married man with a  growing son who asks me questions. I'd rather have a conservative image. I'm done with  my wild days,"  says  Sood who before marriage had a series of colourful relationships  incuding a much-publicized  one with  Southern star Simran.

Sood  has apparently  told the  producers  of  his  first English language  film  to keep his relationship with  his American  co-star chaste.A hard  act to  abandon after  Alexandra's torrid  act with Tim Roth  in her  first  film.
Shooting in Dubai, there's a major  communication  problem  between Sonu Sood  and his American co-star Alexandria who play an Indian and Romanian respectively  in   Sood's first English-language  film..

"But  it's  not actually an English-language  film," says Sood  from Dubai ."Because  I play an Indian  taxi driver  and  Alexandria  plays  Romanian. And we both speak in our  respective languages in the film and communicate in broken  English.'

Communication  gaps are  not alien to  Sood. He has recently  done a Telugu film with a  co-star whom  didn't follow  a  word  of  Hindi. The film is  breaking records all  over Andhra Pradesh.

"The leading lady Anushka and  I had earlier starred  in  the Telugu version  of  Dhoom   It was called Super  and  I played John Abraham's role. Now  after Arundhati  we're much in demand as a pair.I'd love to   do the Hindi version  of  Arundhati." -Sampurn Media