Actress Payal Rohatgi was vying for the role that Kalki Koechlin has bagged in Bannerjee's 'Shanghai'...
There has been an interesting turn of events... Do you remember the Payal Rohatgi-Dibakar Bannerjee fiasco? Well, Payal Rohatgi went to the press stating that Bannerjee wanted some sexual favours from her and in turn promised her a role in his films, a word he did not live up to.
The movie in question here is Dibakar Bannerjee's 'Shanghai' starring Abhay Deol and Emraan hashmi. Interestingly, when Anurag Kashyap was asked of his opinion about the 'casting couch', Kashyap was quick to say that directors these days would not compromise on their films and wouldn't cast anyone on the basis of having had or not had sex with them.
As soon as Anurag took up for Dibakar, Payal Rohatgi accused him of having practised the 'casting couch in real life', and questioned how Kalki Koechlin, Anurag's girlfriend then and wife now managed to bag the films she did.
Not reacting to Payal's statements, it so happens that Kalki Koechlin is now the female lead of 'Shanghai'. Of course, she has been cast only on the basis of her talent and nothing else. Kalki is also a part of Zoya Akhtar's 'Zindagi Milegi na Dobara' (also starring Abhay Deol).
Kalki proved her mettle in 'Dev D'. Post her Dev D experience, the girl has been a part of a cola TV commercial and even took passionately to theatre.
There has been an interesting turn of events... Do you remember the Payal Rohatgi-Dibakar Bannerjee fiasco? Well, Payal Rohatgi went to the press stating that Bannerjee wanted some sexual favours from her and in turn promised her a role in his films, a word he did not live up to.
The movie in question here is Dibakar Bannerjee's 'Shanghai' starring Abhay Deol and Emraan hashmi. Interestingly, when Anurag Kashyap was asked of his opinion about the 'casting couch', Kashyap was quick to say that directors these days would not compromise on their films and wouldn't cast anyone on the basis of having had or not had sex with them.
As soon as Anurag took up for Dibakar, Payal Rohatgi accused him of having practised the 'casting couch in real life', and questioned how Kalki Koechlin, Anurag's girlfriend then and wife now managed to bag the films she did.
Not reacting to Payal's statements, it so happens that Kalki Koechlin is now the female lead of 'Shanghai'. Of course, she has been cast only on the basis of her talent and nothing else. Kalki is also a part of Zoya Akhtar's 'Zindagi Milegi na Dobara' (also starring Abhay Deol).
Kalki proved her mettle in 'Dev D'. Post her Dev D experience, the girl has been a part of a cola TV commercial and even took passionately to theatre.
