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  • ‘The one ‘Heeramandi’ stunt I would never attempt’: Aditi Rao Hydari

    ‘The one ‘Heeramandi’ stunt I would never attempt’: Aditi Rao Hydari

    Bollywood Actress Aditi Rao Hydari, recently shared the one thing she wouldn’t do, which her character Bibbojaan does, in the Netflix web series ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’.
    During a conversation with Netflix India, she talked about her role and revealed what she wouldn’t do. “I wouldn’t wear a heavy ghagra (skirt) and dance near a fountain that was super dangerous,” she said.

    Hydari also thanked Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for the success of the series.
    “Bhansali is the main reason to watch ‘Heeramandi’, a hundred per cent Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and then there’s six of us, we’re not too bad,” she quipped.

    Hydari reflected on her childhood dream job and said that she had always wanted to be a heroine, particularly in a movie starring Mani Ratnam.
    Now that she’s working with Bhansali, she said shes happy and that, “life is good.”

    Bhansali’s highly anticipated digital debut, ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’, which tells the story of courtesans in Lahore’s red-light district, premiered on Netflix on May 1.

  • Sanjay Leela Bhansali thought about including Pakistani actors in Heeramandi

    Sanjay Leela Bhansali thought about including Pakistani actors in Heeramandi

    The much-hyped Netflix series ‘Heeramandi’, directed by renowned Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is now streaming on Netflix. It marks Sanjay’s debut as a director on OTT platforms and features a stellar cast including Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Richa Chadha, Fardeen Khan, Sharmin Segal and Shekhar Suman. The ‘Heeramandi’ team has been giving many interviews on social media and in the media as they promote the expensive project.

    Bhansali shared in an interview on YouTube that he once thought about casting top Pakistani actors for the series.
    “I thought about casting many actors over eighteen years. Initially, I considered Rekha Ji, Kareena, and Rani Mukherji. Later, I had Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan and Imran Abbas in my mind for ‘Heeramandi, but I ended up with this ensemble cast.”

    Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar is a visually stunning drama, easily identifiable as a Bhansali production. It tells the stories of courtesans, known as tawaifs, living in Lahore’s red-light district of ‘Heera Mandi’ during the Indian independence movement in the British Raj.