


The actors talked about how demanding their roles were, both physically and emotionally-Chopra even confessed to breaking down in tears on the third day of shooting, though Singh praised her for overcoming those initial hurdles. shooting “Quantico,” joined in via satellite.

#BajiraoMastaniTrailer and posing for shutterbugs… /0puLhuK5MVĪrriving at the trailer launch in a buggy, Singh and Padukone held a discussion with Bhansali and Chopra about what it was like to prepare for and shoot, the film. The project was finally properly revived in 2014 when Bhansali finally decided on his lead actress from Mary Kom (2014), Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and his lead pair from Рам і Ліла (2013), Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone.The on-screen pairing of Singh and Padukone is another strong move for Bhansali-when he first announced the project 12 years ago, “Bajirao Mastani” was supposed to star his then-leading pair, Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai, following the success of “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.” The real-life couple broke up soon after, however, and the project had been shelved since-until the “Ram Leela” pair reignited Bhansali’s vision. Over the following decade, Bhansali kept expecting the project to be his next film, with several major actors being approached or rumored to be linked to the project, including Shahrukh Khan, Ajay Devgn, Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif, while some in the industry believed it would never be made, calling it jinxed. (2005), as he had wanted to be the first director to unite the pair, as he stated on the talk show Episode #1.4 (2004).

Bhansali kept Khan on and approached Kareena Kapoor to play Mastani and Rani Mukerji to play Kashibai but shelved his plans and moved on to other projects after Khan and Kapoor both signed on to star in Kyon Ki. Bhansali initially wanted to cast Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, his lead pair from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), as the lead actors, with Bhoomika Chawla playing Kashibai, but his plans fell through when the real-life couple had a messy, highly-publicized breakup. A passion project for director Sanjay Leela Bhansali since the 1990s, even before he made his directorial debut, Khamoshi: The Musical (1996).
