It is surprising why the blind item is coming out now. The actress herself said some time back that she met this famous director at an airport and begged him to cast her in any role in his big film. Like if begging could work easily and she got the role through that only! Everyone knows her papaji made a call and also begged on her behalf and that’s how she got it.
Supposedly, another actress was signed on to do this film. You might not know her, but she is young and has already managed to impress both the audience and critics with her portrayal of a yesteryear famous actress in a film released last year.
Check out the blind item from Mumbai Mirror.
Bollywood Blind Item
A recent casting coup has had the entire Hindi film industry in a tizzy. But we hear there is a backstory to the plot. When the female lead for this mega-budget spectacle was first approached, she bowed out as the dates for the film were clashing with her mentor’s dream venture.
Then, when the mentor’s film was postponed, the actor jumped right back into the first film. However, unbeknownst to many, another pretty female actor was already approached and had taken the look-test. In fact, she was on the verge of being signed on, but alas. Perhaps this is what they mean by destiny.
OSOP Guesses
Actress: Alia Bhatt
Mega-Budget: SS Rajamouli’s eagerly-awaited RRR
Other actress: Keerthy Suresh
“I had bumped into Rajamouli sir at an airport and I begged him that whatever part he has (for me) I will do it. That time he had not casted for the girl yet,” Alia told PTI.
“He said he was anyway talking about my timelines. So I told him whatever be the timelines, I will make it happen. We made it happen,” she added.
Bhatt, Seriously
When Karan Johar first auditioned Alia Bhatt for Student of the Year (2012) she was all of 15 and showed up at his office in her school uniform. She was accompanied by her mother, and when Sidharth Malhotra and Varun Dhawan first spotted her, they were reportedly dead against she being cast for the part.
The boys, who were hanging out at Dharma when Alia stopped by to audition, reportedly sent Karan messages while she was still on the premises, making it clear they didn’t approve of her as their potential heroine. ‘She’s too young,’ one of them wrote.
‘She doesn’t look like a heroine,’ the other complained. Karan says he was “bowled over” by her screen test but put her through a weight loss regime before he “saw” her as his lead. Sidharth and Varun became believers much later and still kick themselves when reminded how hard they tried to get her out of the film.