Mumbai, May 18: Anurag Basu has picked Kangna Ranaut as his choice to play the beauteous Madhubala in his biopic on Indian cinema’s singing legend, Kishore Kumar.
Anurag defends his casting choices, “There was no role that she could do in my current film, Barfee. It does feel odd to be working without her.
But I’m sure we’ll work together again. It could be in Kishore (what the biopic is called).”
This, despite the director’s recent fallout with his favourite actress, after her outburst against him.
Anurag admits he was hurt. “If she had a problem with me regarding her role in Kites or whatever, she could’ve picked up the phone and told me.
Why go public about it? Yes, that hurt. I think she was upset because she was left out of the publicity of Kites.
But we wanted to pitch it as a Hrithik Roshan-Barbara Mori love story.” Anurag maintains, “We are and always will be friends. There’s no problem from my side.”
-Agencies