{"id":279,"date":"2024-10-24T03:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T03:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2024-10-24T03:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T03:12:34","slug":"gauri-khans-mother-suggested-mahira-khan-for-srks-raees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Gauri Khan&#8217;s mother suggested Mahira Khan for SRK&#8217;s Raees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">RN desk:Pakistani actor Mahira Khan made her Bollywood debut alongside Shah Rukh Khan in 2017. In an interview with casting director Mukesh Chhabra on his YouTube channel, director Rahul Dholakia shared how there were many leading ladies like Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor and Anushka Sharma who were considered for the part but none of them worked because of some reason. The role eventually ended in the lap of Mahira, who was co-incidentally in Mumbai during the casting process.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Rahul said during the interview, \u201cWe wanted an actor to play an 1980s Muslim girl. So, our first priority was to have an actress with good Hindi speaking skills, and if she had a little bit of an Urdu twang, even better. We also wanted our heroine to have an innocence. And Shah Rukh was 50, so we wanted a heroine who is at least 30-something. Now, there are very few actresses (in India), who are in their 30s with good Hindi and an innocence. There was Deepika, Kareena, and Anushka. We had these three or four heroines who met the criteria. But now, the problem with them was that they are too expensive and the role is too small for them. Then we went through a complete list which included Sonam and Katrina. At the end of the day, we realised this wasn\u2019t working for us. They were not really fitting the role. Shah Rukh Khan cannot romance an Alia Bhatt!\u201d<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">He went on to add, &#8220;Then Gauri [Khan]&#8217;s mom had seen Mahira and my mother had seen her in some Pakistani television show. They both said: \u2018Yeh ladki achi hai (This girl is good).&#8217; Honey Trehan was casting for us. I called him up and asked if he knew Mahira. He said, \u2018She is here in Mumbai for some promotional work.\u2019 He then said, \u2018I will bring her tomorrow, you can audition her for the role.\u2019 We then auditioned her at the Excel office. After the audition, I declared, \u2018I have found my Aasiya.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RN desk:Pakistani actor Mahira Khan made her Bollywood debut alongside Shah Rukh Khan in 2017. In an interview with casting director Mukesh Chhabra on his YouTube channel, director Rahul Dholakia shared how there were many leading ladies like Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor and Anushka Sharma who were considered for the part but none of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionnewsbd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}