Actually, Sanjay Leela Bhansali had been working on “Bajirao Mastani” for years before that he was able to bring his vision to life with Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, and Deepika Padukone. In addition to becoming a financial success, the movie won praise from all sides. In addition to this, every actor’s portrayal was praised to the highest degree. But here is a recall of the moment when Priyanka was confronted about if she wanted to perform the position of Deepika’s Mastani rather than her Kashibai. For the details of those who do not follow Indian ancient epics, Kashibai was the first wife of Bajirao & then he saw Mastani with whom he had fallen in love and married.
This was put to the actress during an interview by the reporters during a Drake nightclub awards show. She immediately replied and asked, “Do you seen the movie? Why am I doing Mastani? Did you like Kashi? Come and let’s see my house now it has become a garden”.
The movie got much appreciation and for the dialogues of the movie and specially the dialogues said by ‘Priyanka’ which are even remembered today when she said, ” Aap humse hamari zindagi maang lete, hum khushi-khushi de dete, par aapne toh humse hamara guroor hi chheen lia. ” ” There are reels of this particular scene and this dialogue and memes of it even as I type this today.
It was planned that ‘Bajirao Mastani’ film was to be starred by Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. But that could never happen because of the strife that existed between both the actors. Aishwarya had mentioned it on ‘Koffee with Karan’ and had said, she wanted to do Mastani but not with the Bajirao that Bhansali had in mind the reference was more towards Salman. For years Bhansali did not get the right Bajirao for Aishwarya to play Mastani except Salman. Later on, Kareena Kapoor Khan was also offered the Mastani role but that didn’t materialize in the same manner as well.
