Exclusive!Rockstar turns 12: Nargis Fakhri shoots Imtiaz Ali’s film without knowing any Hindi

Imtiaz Ali rock star celebrates his 12th birthday today (November 11). Nargis Fakhri, who played Paro, faced difficulties as she could not understand Hindi. After her release, despite the support of her rock star team, she felt isolated and disoriented. read!

In hindsight, I think Imtiaz Ali’s take on Devdas is that Ranbir reprises the tragic hero Sarachandra as a rock musician and Aditi Rao Hydari as a modern-day Chandramukhi, all doe-eyed. Because he was in a bad mood and Nargis Fakhri looked like a rock star playing a parody from Mars. –This seems like a bloated and self-satisfied piece of work.

Nargis Fakhri talks about rock stars

The worst was the fate of Nargis Fakhri, who performed the entire film without knowing any Hindi. In a very candid interview she later had with this writer, rock star She said, “I didn’t understand the culture or the environment.” Imagine if tomorrow you were offered the lead role in a major Chinese movie and were told that you were the ideal choice. , that’s how I felt when I did Rock Star.”

The period following her debut in Rockstar was turbulent for the actress. Film director Imtiaz Ali, actor Ranbir Kapoor and other members of the Rockstar team protected Nargis. But after her release, when she and her performances were rejected, Nargis found herself isolated and disoriented in a city she knew nothing about and her profession. .

“I was ignorant. It was a sad time for me. I couldn’t tell my mother about it, because she would have ordered me to go home. But I won’t be short of work. I was getting these endorsements and doing magazine shoots.”But, quite frankly, rock star is such a vast experience and culturally it’s so close to where I’m from.” It was too far away for me to handle,” said the New York-born Nargis.