| Reena Kapoor: Telly fresher |
The Rajashri soap Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki… is slowly getting steady with the TRP but looks like it will take some time to challenge the reigning saas-bahu sagas. To increase the visibility factor, Sahara One, which airs the serial at 9 pm Monday to Thursday, has launched the Real Life Rani Contest, inviting viewers to write in with their own bittersweet stories from life. The prize could be a date with Rani, played by Reena Kapoor, and much more.
"My character is bubbly and delicate, yet very strong. She comes from an affluent background but gets married to a middle-class family. It's all about how she takes it in her stride," says Reena, who, some may remember, had played Preity Zinta's friend in Kundan Shah's Kya Kehna. To clinch the coveted role of Rani, Reena admits to having gone through a round of auditions, elbowing out "some 700 girls".
The man she gets married to is the handsome Arjun Punj, whose claim to fame is the popular Zee serial Sanjeevani and a couple of music videos. "The brief from Sooraj Barjatya is to do a very controlled kind of acting. He sees the rushes and dismisses scenes where there's an excess," says Arjun, waiting to make the switch to Bollywood
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