Mock audition & thereafter

Dum Laga Ke Haisha star Bhumi Pednekar, before trying in films was an assistant to Shanoo Sharma, the casting director of Yash Raj Films (YRF). Recently, during a chat show, Bhumi opened up about her decision of making her debut in movies. The actress said, “I have always wanted to be an actor. As this script came along, I didn’t know they were auditioning me. So, Shanoo being Shanoo, she said, oh my God! Let’s do this mock audition. She gave me four scenes to do and I did all of them back to back together and the audition happened.”

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Bhumi further added, “I guess when Sharat Katariya, my director from Dum Laga Ke Haisha, kind of liked my work, so they told me ‘Oh! You know what, it wasn’t a mock audition’. We were actually auditioning you.” Speaking about how the news of she being cast was told to her, the actress shares, “Shanoo is a very dramatic person. So,she and I had a fight and she was like, you are fired!’. I was like, What?’, she was like yeah, you’re fired’. I said, Over such a silly thing?’ and then she said, ‘You’re being considered for Dum Laga Ke Haisha.”