Actresses from abroad who make inroads into Bollywood are not few in numbers nowadays.
There is Remo D’Souza who casts Nathan Jones in a pivotal role in A Flying Jatt or Gauri Shinde who employs French actor Mehdi Nebbou in English Vinglish. The strikingly successful Brit-import Katrina Kaif, who claims an Indian connection, seems to have started the influx – she has been followed by several foreign beauties, amongst whom Jacqueline Fernandes, Giselli Monterio, Barbara Mori, Kalki Koechlin, Amy Jackson and Lauren Gottlieb have succeeded in creating waves in Bollywood.Now, three major forthcoming films starring a trio of megastars – Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn – will each have foreign heroines playing the romantic leads.Most bright-eyed Bollywood starlets would have given an arm to be cast opposite Salman Khan in his 2017 Eid release, Tubelight. But the actress who has bagged the plum role is not Indian but internationally acclaimed film and television Chinese actress Zhu Zhu. The actress has formerly been seen in the Hollywood production Cloud Atlas, the Netflix’s original series Marco Polo and is also a pop star and VJ in her homeland, China. Director Kabir Khan is confident that, “Salman and she will make an interesting on screen couple.”The trailer for Ajay Devgn’s Diwali 2016 release, Shivaay, is grabbing attention not only because of his daredevil stunts, but also because of the pretty European girl who plays his love interest. She is Erika Kaar from Poland. The actress reveals that’s she was auditioned in Warsaw and the fact that she learnt a couple of lines in Hindi too helped her bag the role. Erika says about Ajay: “It took months to break the ice. He is a very modest, hard-working and an intelligent person. When he enters the room, you know someone important has entered.”Shah Rukh Khan plays a local don in the Gujarat of the 1990s in the Rahul Dholakia directed Raees, scheduled to be released on Republic Day, 2017.And cast opposite him is not one of the A-list brigade from Bollyood but Pakistani actress Mahira Khan. While actresses like Meera and Sara Loren from across the border have tried their luck in Bollywood in the past, Mahira has bagged a biggie which might turn the tables in her favour.With three foreign heroines making their debut in the coming months, looks like India’s becoming a part of the global village and actors from different countries are showing interest in Bollywood.
There is Remo D’Souza who casts Nathan Jones in a pivotal role in A Flying Jatt or Gauri Shinde who employs French actor Mehdi Nebbou in English Vinglish. The strikingly successful Brit-import Katrina Kaif, who claims an Indian connection, seems to have started the influx – she has been followed by several foreign beauties, amongst whom Jacqueline Fernandes, Giselli Monterio, Barbara Mori, Kalki Koechlin, Amy Jackson and Lauren Gottlieb have succeeded in creating waves in Bollywood.
Now, three major forthcoming films starring a trio of megastars – Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn – will each have foreign heroines playing the romantic leads.
Most bright-eyed Bollywood starlets would have given an arm to be cast opposite Salman Khan in his 2017 Eid release, Tubelight. But the actress who has bagged the plum role is not Indian but internationally acclaimed film and television Chinese actress Zhu Zhu. The actress has formerly been seen in the Hollywood production Cloud Atlas, the Netflix’s original series Marco Polo and is also a pop star and VJ in her homeland, China. Director Kabir Khan is confident that, “Salman and she will make an interesting on screen couple.”
The trailer for Ajay Devgn’s Diwali 2016 release, Shivaay, is grabbing attention not only because of his daredevil stunts, but also because of the pretty European girl who plays his love interest. She is Erika Kaar from Poland. The actress reveals that’s she was auditioned in Warsaw and the fact that she learnt a couple of lines in Hindi too helped her bag the role. Erika says about Ajay: “It took months to break the ice. He is a very modest, hard-working and an intelligent person. When he enters the room, you know someone important has entered.”
Shah Rukh Khan plays a local don in the Gujarat of the 1990s in the Rahul Dholakia directed Raees, scheduled to be released on Republic Day, 2017.
And cast opposite him is not one of the A-list brigade from Bollyood but Pakistani actress Mahira Khan. While actresses like Meera and Sara Loren from across the border have tried their luck in Bollywood in the past, Mahira has bagged a biggie which might turn the tables in her favour.
With three foreign heroines making their debut in the coming months, looks like India’s becoming a part of the global village and actors from different countries are showing interest in Bollywood.
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