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Mahesh Manjrekar plays lead opposite Sushmita
After hunting high and low for a leading man to star opposite the stunning Sushmita Sen in his English-Bengali bi-lingual It Rained that Night, director-actor Mahesh Manjrekar has decided to cast himself as Sushmita’s husband.
Explains Mahesh, "I wanted to cast Sachin Khedekar who played Tabu’s husband in the Astitva. Then I thought it would be better if I did not repeat anyone from the original Hindi or Marathi cast in the English-Bengali re-make." Mahesh and Sushmita had a whale of a time recently shooting for Sanjay Jha’s Pran Jaaye Par Shan Na Jaaye which Manjrekar produced.
Sushmita sportingly agreed to put in a guest appearance as a sutradhar (narrator) in Pran Jaaye... Manjrekar and Sushmita even danced together to a pseudo-romantic number in the film. "She’s a wonderful actress and so stunningly beautiful," Mahesh says admiringly. And to think the two had a minor tiff when Sushmita was dropped out of Manjrekar’s Tera Mera Saath Rahe when she asked for changes in the script.
The roles of Tabu and Sachin Khedeker’s friends in the Hindi version will be played by Bengali actors Victor Bannerjee and Satapdi Roy. When Manjrekar flew down to Kolkata to narrate the script, Bannerjee initially wanted to play Sushmita’s husband’s role. With Bhoot and now this film, Bannerjee seems to have rediscovered a film career in Mumbai, after Shyam Benegal’s Kalyug, Lekh Tandon and Doosri Dulhan in the 1980s.
http://rediff.com/entertai/2003/jan/08news.htm
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