Rani was clueless about her hero

Sep 10, 2012 - Joginder Tuteja |

Age Correspondent

Time and again one hears about chance encounters at five star dining halls or coffee shops or Luck By Chance moments during auditions enabling an actor to be finalised for a film. In case of Aiyyaa though, it was the Web that nailed it for Rani Mukherji. Not quite sure about her leading man Prithiviraj, Rani had to spend some time on the Internet before she got to know him a little better.
“Even though Prithiviraj is a superstar down South and has acted in over 50 Malayalam films, Rani was totally clueless about him. He was entirely the choice of director Sachin Kundalkar, but Rani wanted to know more about him. She wanted to know how he looked in real life. More so because his character in Aiyya couldn’t have carried the same look as in his South ventures,” informs a source. After hours of googling she came across an interview of his which sealed the deal.
“In his Malayalam films, he looks very different with a moustache. However I saw this interview of Prithvi on the internet where he looked very different. I saw an entirely new avtar and I was convinced that he carried the right flavour of a tall, dark and handsome guy that we wanted for Aiyyaa,” confirms Rani.
Umm... there’s just one problem to Rani’s observation, Prithviraj is quite fair in real life.

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