- Gauahar Khan has been in movies with Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan.
- She said that Danny Boyle had her try out for Slumdog Millionaire more than once.
- The film won eight awards at the 81st Academy Awards, including best picture.
Gauahar Khan has been in movies with Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan, like Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year and Begum Jaan. In a new interview, the actor was asked if she had ever lost a role because of how she looked. She said that one of the “biggest projects she lost” was because she was “too pretty for it.” She said that Danny Boyle had her try out for his 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire more than once. Slumdog Millionaire won eight awards at the 81st Academy Awards, including best picture. Freida Pinto and Dev Patel were in the movie Slumdog Millionaire together.
She said, “”One of the biggest projects I lost in my life was because I was too good looking for it, and it was Slumdog millionaire. I have met Danny Boyle, and I have done five rounds of auditions for it.”
“After the fifth round he said ‘you’re a fantastic actor, are you sure you’re trained in India?’ At that time, I had hardly an experience, and I said ‘I’ve trained in India’. He said, ‘you speak like an actor who is from out of India, not from India, so how do you have this experience?’ I said ‘sir I don’t know, I just try and do it every single day’. He said ‘you are such a fab actor but somehow I won’t be able to cast you here because I have to match three age groups and I can’t place you in a Slumdog Millionaire with your face. I said, ‘I can be in a slum.”
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