Ever since Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra announced that he is
making a movie titled Fanney Khan with Anil Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
in the lead, the curiosity of the fans has gone onto some other level. Just a while
back, there were reports that R Madhavan will be romancing Aishwarya in the
film.
A source was quoted saying, “Fanney Khan marks the
directorial debut of Atul Manjrekar, who has been a part of the ad world and is
a long-time associate of Mehra. For the last couple of weeks the producers,
Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra, Bhushan Kumar and Prernaa Arora along with Aishwarya
have been locked in a bitter struggle to find the right hero opposite the
actress. There was a choice between Madhavan and RajKummar Rao with Aishwarya
and Prernaa on one side opting for Rao and Mehra insisting on Madhavan. Ash,
who likes to be involved in each and every aspect of a film, and Prernaa wanted
the younger Rao to romance the actress in the film while Mehra was extremely
impressed by Madhavan’s acting abilities. The discussions kept going on till
the solution was finally cracked late on Wednesday afternoon – and the answer
was Madhavan!”
But, then the reports of Rajkummar Rao replacing Madhavan
replacing Madhavan started doing the rounds. Now, the director has confirmed
that Rajkummar is on board now. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra took to Twitter to
announce the news and wrote, "#FanneyKhan @AnilKapoor @RajkummarRao
@divyadutta25 @TSeries @kriarj #Ash welcome aboard Raj tighten your seat belt
for the roller coaster."
In an interview, the co-producer of Fanney Khan, Prernaa
Arora had spoken about the movie's shoot schedule and Aishwarya's role. She had
said, "The team starts building the set in Mumbai next month and Anil will
kick off shooting in the first week of August. Aishwarya joins him by the
month-end and the film will wrap up in a start-to-finish schedule by
October."
When quizzed about Aishwarya's role, Prernaa had revealed,
"Ash was blown away by her glamorous and “highly stylised” character. We
took the script to her two months ago and she immediately gave her nod."
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