Now Priyanka awaiting entry into record books
Eighty years ago
legendary British actor Lupino Lane
created a (yet unbroken) record for a
male actor playing
24 roles in “Only Me” (1929)
. And now
Bollywood
star Priyanka Chopra is all excited about the possibility of
her entering the
record books for doing 12 roles in
forthcoming “What’s Your
Raashee“.
“I was aware about
Sanjeev Kumar playing nine roles
in
‘Naya Din Nayi Raat’ and
Kamal Haasan
being seen 10 times over in
‘Dashavatharam’. However,
even I got to know about Lupino Lane’s achievement very recently. Hats
off to him to have done that eight decades back and that too in a
silent film,” Priyanka told IANS.
In
Ashutosh Gowariker’s “What’s Your Raashee”, she
plays 12 different roles and the film has already been referred to the
Guinness World Records.
While there have been quite a few double role performances by
leading ladies in the past, there aren’t many movies where a Bollywood
actress has played even a triple role, let aside coming close to
enacting a dozen-odd characters in a single outing.
“Yes, I have been told about this. I guess not just in India but
even in world cinema no woman has ever played 12 different characters
in the film. In fact, the producers of ‘What’s Your Raashee’ have got
in touch with the Guinness World Records and we are awaiting their
response,” said Priyanka.
If one goes down the memory lane, one can comfortably say that with
“What’s Your Raashee?”, Priyanka may well boast of doing the biggest
ever film written for a woman protagonist in the history of Indian
cinema.
“Please don’t make it all sound so big and heavy. Let’s just look at
it as an entertaining movie and leave it there. Words like ‘greatest’
and ‘biggest’ don’t hold much relevance if one doesn’t justify each of
the characters. You may win when it comes to count but then you must
also be able to put some weight in your performance,” she said.
So was she overjoyed when Gowariker approached her for the role?
“Not at all. In fact I was quite nervous about how I would manage to
pull it off. A role may look fantastic on paper and you too may feel
confident of pulling it off. Still, you have to be extra careful to
make sure that audiences too like what you bring to the table,” said
Priyanka, who has given three consecutive hits – “Dostana”, “Fashion”
and “Kaminey”.
This was the reason why she stayed away from all the limelight while
shooting for ‘What’s Your Raashee?’ and her look for each of the
characters too was kept under wraps.
“You end up picking on all the flattery around you but none of that
helps in what comes across on screen”, she said. “‘What’s Your
Raashee?’ has such a fantastic script written with each of the 12 roles
boasting of such well-etched
characterisation.
“I had to go all out in following Ashutosh’s vision. With the coming
together of a great production house, an intelligent director, a
fantastic co-star and some melodious music, it all seems to have summed
up well. Now that the mathematics part has gone well, it is time to see
how audiences react to our effort.”
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