Currently enjoying the success of her dance film ABCD 2, American dancer and actor Lauren Gottlieb has also worked to perfect her Hindi, which has stunned filmmaker Karan Johar.
One of the judges of the upcoming season of dance reality show Jhalak Dikhlaja, Lauren Gottlieb said audiences will see “an evolution”, especially with regards to her speaking in Hindi. “I’ll be speaking Hindi on the show and when we were taping my lines yesterday, everyone was shocked to hear my Hindi.”
“Karan Johar’s jaw dropped on the floor and he wondered ‘How the heck could you do that?’ And this is the first time that people are going to be seeing me speaking Hindi live.”
Johar is also one of the judges on the show along with Shahid Kapoor and Ganesh Hegde.
The characters that Gottlieb played in all her three films — ABCD, ABCD 2 and Welcome 2 Karachi — weren’t Indian characters and hence she had the freedom of speaking English or Hindi with a foreign accent in these films.
But to establish herself in the industry, she has now realised that looks are not enough, as is with the case of UK national Katrina Kaif who has improved her Hindi. Even Canadian actress Sunny Leone is working hard to perfect her Hindi.