Priyanka Chopra is making headlines for her film ‘Heads of State’ nowadays. Now recently she shared a post on her Instagram handle, after which the actress has once again come into the discussion. The actress told that Anurag narrated an interesting anecdote about her casting and journey in Basu’s film ‘Barfi’.
Priyanka Chopra shared a video on her Instagram handle. The actress told how bad she had had a condition during the workshop. While sharing the post, Priyanka Chopra wrote in the caption- ‘We used ourselves in research, reading, watching videos, meeting with children suffering from autism and exercising in the office of Aram Nagar. One day he told me that I should give dirty Hindi abuses on him. Embarrassed, I still tried. It was fun and it took me out of my comfort zone and then after the ‘Basu-style’ practice, Jhilmil was born, mostly the scenes of Barfi-Jhilmil were done without preparation. ‘
How to get Jhilmil’s role in ‘Barfi’?
Priyanka Chopra shared that the film was going to be missed by her hand because when Anurag Basu offered her the film, she reached her home to meet the filmmaker. The actress told in her post- ‘In January 2009, I was shooting for Anjana Anjani in New York, then Ranbir Kapoor told about her new film Barfi, which Anurag Basu was making. I also praise his work.
The actress further wrote- ‘When she offered me the role of Jhilmil, I was very happy. We met his house in Mumbai, when I returned from an event adorned, but he saw me and said that he could not think of him as Jhilmil, but we still got ready for a 5-day workshop.
Jhilmil of ‘Barfi’ is one of the most memorable characters
Talking about her casting, Priyanka Chopra said- ‘Barfi is one of my most precious films. Ravi Varman’s cinematography was the best. Beautiful Ileana Dikruz gave Shruti a wonderful look, Ranbir shines like a star and Anurag Sir was brilliant, gentle and playful. His story of telling the story is magical ‘.

