Lara’s Reality Check

Priyadarshan has made Lara Dutta get really real for her role in Billoo Barber. Lara who thought her Neeta Lulla saris were the perfect attire to essay the role of a ‘very poor village girl’, got first-hand experience of Priyadarshan trying to keep the movie as realistic as possible. He took Lara sari shopping and bought some crumpled, old, de-glamorised saris for her.

While trying to portray her character Lara has had to blow into a chullah to light it, draw water from a well, run around barefoot and feed both Irrfan Khan and the goats. Hell that sounds like a lot of firsts for a former Miss World! Lara has confessed that Priyadarshan has made her work way harder in those 20 days of shooting than she has in her entire life. The experience she says, has got her trained to be a housewife!

Now this sounds like a hell of a change from her usual character which justs smiles and dances around the streets of Mauritius. I for one am waiting to see how well this ‘more than a lifetime worth of hard work’ appears on screen. It’s also good to know that some “stars” as we call them actually have started to listen to their directors and not the other way around.