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Wednesday, 14th May 2014, 03:20 PM IST After actresses Tabu and Raveena Tandon turned down Zoya Akhtar's ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’ only because they were not comfortable playing a mom to Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh, Shefali Shah has been roped in to essay the same role. Earlier reports suggested that the same role was offered to Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit as well, but both the actresses too turneddown the offer.
Interestingly, Shefali (41), who is younger to all of the above mentioned A-list actresses, has played a mother earlier to Akshay Kumar (46) in the film ‘Waqt — The Race Against Time’. A source told a popular daily, “Both Tabu and Raveena liked the role but weren't comfortable playing mom to Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh.” He further added, “Shefali gave the required dates immediately as she has no qualms playing mom to these stars. Now she is packing her bags to fly off to Barcelona for the shoot.” Zoya was earlier supposed to kick off the film on a cruise in June. But with the shoot advanced to May, she knew that time was running out. Luckily for her, Shefali came to the rescue. |