Kartik Aaryan is all set enter a new intense stage in his career with Anurag Basu’s Aashiqui 3 where he will, for the first time , play a tormented lover.

As soon as the project was announced, the marketing teams of various leading ladies were galvanized into action . There have been various “source” based claims from the PR machinery about the heroine in Aashiqui 3.

According to reliable sources, the producers and director Anurag Basu have zeroed on in three names for the heroine’s part in Aashiqui 3.

Sources say the heroine’s role may go to Deepika Padukone, Shradha Kapoor or Rashmika Mandanna depending on availability and suitability.

“It won’t be any heroine that Kartik Aaryan has already worked with. The team of Aashiqui 3 wants a fresh pairing with Kartik.It will be one of these three ladies,” an informed source divulges.

Watch this space to know who wins the race.