12-role Priyanka dances 22 hours!
Priyanka Chopra, who is playing as many as 12 different characters in Ashutosh Gowariker’s What’s Your Raashee?, stunned everybody on the sets by dancing non-stop for 22 hours for a special song in the film.
Under the choreographic supervision of Raju Khan (Saroj Khan’s son), Priyanka performed to a song that required her to bring all the 12 characters together in all their varying moods and personalities.
“Priyanka shot with Raju for 22 hours at a stretch. As with most shoots, she couldn’t relax for hours at a stretch. It was very important to get the continuity right. Otherwise the characters’ graph would’ve become lopsided. To dance and emote to a song in 12 different looks and that too at a stretch is not an easy thing,” said a source close to the film.
Though Priyanka isn’t allowed to speak about the shoot, it was a challenge that required her to swing from one role to another at the drop of a beat.
Raju didn’t want to break the rhythm of the 12 characters as captured in one line of vision. Each of the characters represents a different star sign of the Zodiac.
The film also stars Priyanka’s ex-beau Hurman S. Baweja. Although Priyanka and Hurman broke up after the disastrous Love Story 2050, onlookers say the two are so compatible on and off screen that it’s impossible to tell the status of their personal relationship.
“They’re laughing and joking on the sets even when they aren’t facing the camera. In fact, Hurman was there to support her when she did the tough 12-avatar dance act,” a source said.
Priyanka’s unique role, which can only be compared to Sanjeev Kumar’s nine avatars in Naya Din Nayi Raat, could’ve been Kareena Kapoor’s, if she hadn’t turned it down.
Yes, it was offered to me and Shahid Kapur. I’d have loved to do another film with Shahid (Kapur). But the dates were clashing with Karan’s (Johar) film that Rensil d’Silva is directing with me and Saif (Ali Khan),” Kareena said.
The actress, who broke up with Shahid while shooting for Jab We Met, is currently dating Saif.
“We’re professionals, all of us. Even if I’m working in a film with Saif in place of a film with Shahid, we’re thorough professionals. There’s no time to party or go out or do any of the fun things. We shot in a tube station in Philadelphia at below-freezing temperatures and we needed to cover as much work as possible in limited time,” Kareena said.
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