Eva Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Vivien Leigh are four well-known Hollywood hotties whom director Madhur Bhandarkar will use as reference points for Bebo's role in upcoming film "Heroine".

To make Kareena's job simpler, the director has made a three-hour documentary on these Hollywood beauties.

However, he couldn't find enough visual material on the classical Indian screen beauties to put into the documentary for Kareena's reference.

"When I set out to put together a documentary chronicling the lives of the screen legends I was also simultaneously enhancing my own knowledge of them to make Kareena's character of Mahi Khanna more rounded complete and contemporary," Bhandarkar said.

Madhur, who just come back from a trip to Singapore, founds loads of invaluable footage on Hollywood greats.

"For example, take Vivien Leigh. Her stormy relationship with Sir Laurence Olivier is so eventful, dramatic, passionate and romantic. Unfortunately there's no valid and substantial footage on Madhubala or Meena Kumari revealing their relationship with Kishore Kumar and Kamal Amrohi respectively," he said.

Bhandarkar was appalled to note the lack of visual or even written records on screen legends.

"When a director wants to make a film about an Indian actor or about our movie industry where does he look for references? On the other hand there's no dearth of material written and filmed on Hollywood's icons."

So for want of choice his documentary portrays only Hollywood actresses. But the filmmaker is keen that Kareena refer to Indian actresses too.

But Kareena, who's busy shooting with SRK for "Ra. 1", will be able to watch Bhandarkar's three-hour documentary only when she gets free time in September-October.

"She's shooting for 'Ra. 1' and 'Golmaal 3'. Once she's done she will watch the documentary repeatedly. I've chosen footage that represents Eva Gardner, Liz Taylor and others most tellingly. Her character Mahi Khanna is an actress of today, not of yesteryears," the director said.

The shooting of "Heroine" will start in December this year, so that Bebo will have time to study the documentary put together by Bhandarkar carefully. (With Inputs from Agencies)