EXCLUSIVE: Was Taapsee Pannu the first choice for ‘Badhaai Ho’?

After making her debut with Nitesh Tiwari’s superhit sports drama ‘Dangal’, actress Sanya Malhotra bagged an interesting and quirky film ‘Badhaai Ho’ opposite Ayushmann Khurrana. Recently the cast of the film even wrapped the first schedule of the film.

As the film is all set to release soon an insider revealed an interesting thing about the film.  Apparently, the makers had earlier approached another actress to star opposite Ayushmann Khurrana. If the sources are to be believed the makers were keen on roping Taapsee Pannu for the role. (Also read: Badhaai Ho: It’s first schedule wrap for Ayushmann and Sanya-starrer)

According to the sources Taapsee already had enough films in her kitty hence she couldn’t take up this project. But the actress had indeed liked the idea. Later the makers approached Sanya Malhotra for the same.

Taapsee Pannu’s career revived with the film ‘Pink’ and it seems she is very clear about doing roles that give her enough space in each and every film that she chooses to do.

Stay tuned to read more such interesting stories.

Pooja Sharma

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