Kareena's pelvic thrust, Sonakshi's Kathakali moves steal Salman's thunder in Dabangg 2

It seems that female Bollywood actors are striving hard nowadays to experiment with something new in their every film. In the much-talked about upcoming movie "Dabangg 2" of Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha recently challenged herself with some Kathakali steps on the set of the movie.

Kareena Kapoor too canned an item number for "Dabangg 2" and said it was great fun shooting for the song as she tried something new for it.

Sonakshi, who matched tough dance steps with ace choreographer Prabhu Deva in "Oh My God!", tried some steps of the classical dance form while shooting for the song "Dagabaaz re" from the movie.

"There is a sequence in the song where there are Kathakali dancers and when Sonakshi came to know about this, she got really excited! She is an actor who loves learning new things and, in fact, has even learnt some Kathakali and requested the dancers to teach her a few more steps," said a source.

Kareena, who who did item number "Halkat jawani" in her film "Heroine", said: "It was great fun. I loved the song... for the first time I have done a pelvic thrust. I have never done that before and Farah Khan has shot it amazingly. I am looking forward to it because it's a fun song. I hope people love it."

Designer Manish Malhotra has styled Kareena's costumes for the item song and Farah has choreographed her moves.

There were reports that her sister Karisma was on the sets while she was giving shots for the song and Kareena said: "She came to meet Salman, Arbaaz, Malaika and all and that's it. She was not there to give any takes."

In "Dabangg", Malaika featured in the item song "Munni badnaam".

"Dabangg 2", also starring Sonakshi Sinha and Prakash Raj, is slated for release Dec 21.

Arbaaz Khan is making his directorial debut with "Dabangg 2", which stars his big brother Salman in the lead role. Sonakshi plays his wife.