Heeramandi: Fardeen Khan Reveals Bagging SLB Present After Being ‘Noticed’ at Award Present | Unique

14 years after Dulha Mil Gaya, Fardeen Khan is all set to make his comeback with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s historic drama, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazar. Up to now, the actor had opened up on how he determined to take a step again from the films to concentrate on his well being and household life. So, when the supply to be part of the Netflix unique present got here his means, he was exhilarated. And there’s an attention-grabbing anecdote behind how he landed the a part of Wali Mohammed, a captivating nawab besotted with a nautch woman.

In an unique chat with News18 Showsha, Fardeen reveals how he serendipitously caught the eye of the casting director of the sequence whereas attending an occasion. “I used to be noticed at an award operate by Shruti Mahajan, who has carefully labored with Mr Bhansali over time. I don’t know whether or not she was there or she noticed me on tv, however she thought that I might go well with the character of Wali,” he recollects.

So, what occurred subsequent? “She known as me after I obtained again from Abu Dhabi. She advised me that she would need me to satisfy Mr Bhansali and his staff. And since I used to be away from the films for therefore lengthy, they simply needed to see if I actually suited the half,” says Fardeen.

Regardless of being away from the digital camera for greater than a decade, he didn’t need to undergo any audition course of. Actually, Bhansali was impressed together with his very first assembly with Fardeen. “20 minutes into the assembly, Mr Bhansali got here alongside to check out me. We had met beforehand too. And when he was satisfied, he agreed to do a glance take a look at. I couldn’t consider my luck. I used to be simply so grateful for the chance,” says the actor.

Following the look take a look at, the filmmaker rang him up and broke the excellent news to him. “He wasn’t there throughout my look take a look at. My photos have been despatched to him after which I obtained a name from him. He mentioned, ‘Congratulations, you’re Wali Mohammad!’ It was thrilling and nerve-wrecking as I hadn’t been on a set since a very long time,” exclaims Fardeen.

Heeramandi will see him sharing display screen area with Sonakshi Sinha for the primary time. Apparently, their dads – late Firoz Khan and Shatrughan Sinha – at all times shared a pleasant equation however Fardeen confesses that he and Sonakshi didn’t know one another properly earlier than they met on the units of the sequence. “There’s an age hole between us. We solely knew of one another and ran into one different at completely different events and greeted with a ‘hello’ or a ‘hi there’,” he states.

Lauding her, Fardeen continues, “I obtained to know her properly through the making of Heeramandi and it was good to get to know her a bit. She’s a chilled-out, enjoyable and attention-grabbing particular person and really straightforward to get together with. Now we have scuba diving in widespread. She has accomplished such job on this present and had numerous enjoyable along with her position and he or she owned it.”