Gauahar Khan in an interview revealed that she appeared for 5 rounds of auditions for the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, however director Danny Boyle couldn’t image her as somebody from the slums, together with her face. She stated that she has misplaced out on a number of roles over time, as a result of she’s too ‘good-looking’.
In an interview with Film Companion, Gauahar stated that Danny Boyle was so impressed together with her efficiency within the audition that he couldn’t imagine that she had educated in India. But she assured him that she had.
“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 any 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 slum with your face. I said, ‘I can be in a slum, try me’,” Gauahar stated, including that simply the truth that Danny Boyle thought she was a great actor is nice sufficient.
Citing one other instance, Gauahar stated, “In Rocket Singh, the endeavour was to make me not so good-looking. Shimit sir would say, ‘iski aankho pe aur pink lagao, ispe aur jarring lipstick lagao’, because that was the look, that was the character. Usko lagta that woh badi fashionable hai, but she was not meant to look super good-looking… I would reach the set and Shimit sir would still say ‘Bahaut pretty lag rahi hai, isko kuch aur green karo’, and in my heart I’m like, ‘Meri pehli film hai!’.”
Slumdog Millionaire grew to become a blockbuster hit on the field workplace, and gained the Oscar for Best Picture in 2009. It starred Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor and others. In a largely forgotten footnote, Loveleen Tandan served as co-director on the movie, a task for which she was credited, however hardly felicitated, whilst Boyle swept the awards circuit that 12 months.
