Originally posted by: Mallika-E-Bhais
@P: Those are one-off cases. Irfan is known in the US studios & the other projects are helmed by a Brit Indian & American Indian respectively so obviously they will know all about the top Indian stars & superb actors (Irrfan, Tabu) so that doesn't count LOL. There is no auditioning in India, it all runs on nepotism & the like so I don't know what Princess Kapoor was smoking.. Or maybe little Rani's role was an open call audition so that's why Alia had to audition but usually, that's never ever the case. Anyway, let's agree to disagree. Cya!
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well i know genelia was auditioned for Imraans first film...Jaane tu ya Jaane naa, auditions were held for Aashiqui 2, so many TV stars applied and groused when Aditya was chosen (but as it turns out the audience thought he was the perfect choice too) ...
come on..Mallika...India isnt that behind and backward...the distributors and people investing their money hv a say in the casting too...Sonu Sood, Sarfaraz Nawazuddin, Punit, Sushant Rajput, Ranveer they are not connected to films at least not in a direct way..they had to go the normal route, visiting studios, leaving their portfolios, giving auditions...there are crores and crores being invested, unless the producer, star or distributor is investing the lions share like that guy Karim Morani whose daughter is in a few films and producer Bhagnani whose son Jacky acted in Yongistan and some others there will be no one to put money in a film just cos so and so star said take my kid. There are kids of music barons...Love Shuddhas hero and others..but thankfully Rajkumar Rao, Amit Sadh, in additon to the already mentioned are picked for their talent.
The whole Sushmita bad blood thing between SLB and her happened because she had to audition for Devdas and SLB wanted her to pay for her audition/portfolio costumes, Kareena auditioned for Paro and badmouthed SLB when she didnt get the role.
Edited by pakeezah - 9 years ago
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