following the let go of her first Bollywood movie Jannat, Sonal Chauhan has become the new blue-eyed girl of the Bhatt site. Sify.com catches up with this fresh heartthrob of Bollywood during her breezy visit to Kolkata for the promotion of her film.Till the shooting for Jannat started, I did not have the remotest idea that I will take up the theater. I was into part time modelling and wanted to become a journalist. But never thought I will land up being a heroine in a Hindi film. Kunal Deshmukh, the director of Jannat, saw me at a eating place in Mumbai. He came to me and asked for my contact number. In a week, I was on the floors killing. I don`t have formal training in acting. But now that I have made up my mind to become an actor, I feel that a formal training is very much compulsory. I will soon join an acting school.
let know us about your character in Jannat?
My nature Zoya is not a typical 20th century girl. She knows her limits and know how to react in different situation. Unlike a characteristic girlfriend, she refuse gifts from her boyfriend Arjun (Emraan Hashmi) and prefers shopping with her pay.
go forward booking has begun for the Indian film Jannat which release this Friday and has already entered the record books as the first film to be screened in both Pakistan and India.The Emraan Hashmi starrer about match fixing, directed by Kunal Deshmukh and shaped by Mukesh Bhatt, has been cleared by the censor board in Pakistan, where the government allows Indian films to be screened on a case-to-case basis.”We are anxious about the movie and there is advance booking for it,” said Hammad Raza, the manager of Cinepax movies in nearby Rawalpindi.He said the film’s music had already become all the rage and this would be the first time that a movie would be released at the same time across the border.”We believe that it will draw huge crowds because it’s related to cricket and will be screen when the IPL will be at its peak,” said Raza.
Ironically, CD sellers are also expecting good business.”It will be illegal but the movie will be available at many shops,” said a CD distributor in Islamabad.He said he had by now got the master print for all those who didn’t want to take the problem of going to the theatre.A new Indian movie on DVD in Pakistan is available for Pakistani Rs 150, the price plummeting to Rs 100 or fewer after a month. though, films selling under patent cost Rs 300 or more.Songs from Jannat are already available in the Pakistani market. “The music of Jannat is selling well, but not to our expectation,” said Wajih Hussain, who sells music in Islamabad.The film’s lead actor Emraan is a known figure in Pakistan and has feature in TV ads being telecast by different television channels. In one gainful for a cell phone corporation, he says, “Now its my time to shine in Pakistan.” That may be true surely.
