India, Feb. 21 -- In a role reversal from their younger days of serenades and big love despite the odds, actors Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor now play a warring couple. Yes, they are at loggerheads, on the verge of divorce and united only in their pursuit of money in their new film Total Dhamaal . The actress with the winsome smile, who has often been compared to the iconic Madhubala and is looking timeless in her latest outing, says, "Things just fell in place. Indra ji (director Indra Kumar) approached me saying that he had something interesting and narrated the script. I loved it. Then he said that he was casting Anil (Kapoor) ji. We both discussed it over the phone."

The familiarity of the set-up helped. Madhuri had last worked with ...