On KBC 13’s Shaandaar Shukriya Neena Gupta reveals, ‘Ayushmann Khurrana didn’t get the, ‘Mummy’ feeling looking at me’!

The Thursday episode of #SonyEntertainmentTelevision’s most loved game show, #KaunBanegaCrorepati13 will see celebrated actors – #NeenaGupta and #GajrajRao grace the #ShaandaarShukriya episode. While the duo have been much appreciated for their extraordinary work together in, ‘#ShubhMangalZyadaSavdhaan’, it was their first movie together, ‘Badhaai Ho’ that grabbed eyeballs and won hearts! Sitting on the hot seat opposite Amitabh Bachchan, Neena Gupta will be seen revealing auditioning for a role in the movie Badhaai Ho and why wasn’t she chosen in one go.

The iconic actress, Neena Gupta will be seen talking about how she had loved the script of Badhaai Ho from the first reading, but never got a call back. She then revealed that things changed when she was called to visit the director of the film, Amit Sharma in his office, “Amit called me to his office after a week and ten days. When I went there, I asked his assistant, ‘What should I wear so that he thinks I fit into the character?’ I was told that that character is from a middle-class family so I should wear a salwar kameez. I had some stylish salwar kameez but here, I had to wear normal salwar kameez. Then I got the kameez, but didn’t have the salwar… the normal salwar. I was wondering what can I do? I then wore my house cook’s salwar because it was a normal and simple white color salwar. I went there (To Amit Sharma’s office), wearing my chunni and salwar kameez and I told him, “Sir am I looking alright, I am wearing my house help’s salwar!” he looked quite impressed by me.”

Not only that but the actress also revealed the real reason behind not being chosen in one go. She shares, “I then got to know later that when everyone would sit, and talk, Ayushmann Khurrana felt that I should not play the part because I don’t look like a mom. He said, ‘She’s too hot!’ He didn’t get the, ‘Mummy’ feeling looking at me. Someone then told Amit, that I had done a short film with Jackie Shroff called, ‘Khujli’, a 15-minute short. In that I had an almost similar attire. He watched that, then showed it to Ayushmann and everyone else. That is how I was locked to play the role.”

Tune in to Kaun Banega Crorepati 13’s Shaandaar Shukriya episode on 16th December at 9:00 pm on Sony Entertainment Television.