Appalling as it may sound, Amrita Rao, the bollywood actress who has been in two of the most unbeaten films of the decade –Farah Khan’s Main Hoon Na and Sooraj Barjatya’s Vivah and whose popularity rate and iconic status is undoubtedly greater than most of her contemporaries, was not asked to part of Karan Johar-Tarun Mansukhani’s Vote Aapke Haath Mein Hai campaign.
When enquired about this astonishing oversight Amrita laughs away the question. “You’ll have to ask them why I wasn’t part of it.” The bollywood star, Amrita, it would give the impression, has annoyed the Johar-Chopra’s by declining to perform in Bachna Ae Haseenon. She was offered the part that Minissha Lamba lastly did. “I won’t say I’m tired of playing the sweet girl nextdoor who looks at life each day with wide-eyed wonder. But I do crave for a change of image. In my next release Short Cut I play a very glamorous girl, tells Amrita.
She added more, “For the first time I’m being dressed up by Manish Malhotra. That does say something about the characters I’ve played so far. So yes I declined Bachna Ae Haeseenon. I couldn’t relate to the character.” No one says no to a Yash Chopra production. Amrita’s activities were clandestinely portrayed as “high-handed” and “reckless”.
And now she was declined a part among Bollywood’s 30-minus icons in Karan Johar’s voting-awareness movie though everyone from Kareena Kapoor to Ritesh Deshmukh showed their performance for it. Not that Amrita was gloomy over being left out. On Thursday Amrita Rao voted for the first time. She was excited by casting her vote that she reached the polling booth even before the gates had opened.
“At 7 am I was the first voter at the booth in the municipal school in Mahim.I feel so proud of being able to vote for the first time. I keep looking at the black mark on my finger proudly. For years I envied that tell-tale mark on my parents’ finger.” Amrita’s selected candidate had to fulfill three fundamentals. “He had to be well-educated, young though not inexperienced, and without a criminal background.” Amusingly she tells, she gained a voting awareness!
