Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap says he was so impressed with actress Sobhita Dhulipala that he didn’t feel the need to audition her a second time for Raman Raghav 2.0.
“When I saw her audition, I had no idea who she was, not even her name. She was so perfect for the character, I didn’t feel the need to test her again,” Kashyap said in a statement.
Dhulipala won the Miss Earth title in 2013 and also featured in the 2014 Kingfisher calendar.
Kashyap said he was surprised that a beauty pageant winner didn’t care about the way she looked.
“In the process of shooting the film, [I found] she wasn’t like any of the models or Miss India winners I have ever met. It was a big surprise to see a Miss India who did not care about how she looked but did care whether she was getting the character and emotions right,” Kashyap said.
“In the days we shot the film, she drowned herself in her character so much that she became Simmy. She saw every single cut of Raman Raghav 2.0 as many times as it was screened, even more than me. That is how nuts she is,” he added.
Raman Raghav 2.0 also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vicky Kaushal. Currently out in the UAE, the film is loosely based on serial killer Raman Raghav who was active in Mumbai during the mid-1960s.
