Buzz is that producer Vijay
Galani and director Anil Sharma discovered her. But the truth is that it
wasn't Galani and Sharma but Salman who decided to cast Zarina in Veer
after he set his eyes on her while working with her for Subhash Ghai's
Yuvvraaj. Ghai had called Zarina via casting director Abhimanyu as a body
double to step into Katrina's shoes for a song, as Katrina couldn't give
Ghai the required dates.
A source reveals, “Zarina
is slightly younger than Katrina, her age is 21. If one was to see Zarina
from afar then you would not be able to make out who is who. Zarina’s name
will be changed before the film releases and she will be given a much more
common Hindu name.”
The 21-year-old model
looks so strikingly similar to Katrina that those who have seen her from
a distance were not able to spot the difference between the newcomer and
Katrina. According to sources, Zarina resides in Bandra, and the makers
of Veer are going to change her name before they make an official announcement
about her being part of the film.
Commenting on when Salman
first spotted Zarina, a source from the industry said, "Salman first saw
Zarina on the sets of Yuvvraaj. He was shocked when he saw her and immediately
asked Ghai who she was. That's when Ghai told Salman that he had called
her as a body double in place of Katrina."
Within a few minutes,
Salman called up Anil Sharma and asked him to audition Zarina for Veer.
Our source added, "Although Anil Sharma arranged for an audition the call
by Salman was the final word as far as Zarina being part of Veer was concerned."
When contacted, Subhash Ghai
confirmed the news and said, "The incident was a pleasant surprise for
everybody on the sets of Yuvvraaj. Salman has a great eye for discovering
new talent. He has it in him to make anybody a star. Zarina deserves to
be in Veer. Everybody was talking about her beauty and talent on the sets
of Yuvvraaj."
Zarine Khan Doesn't
looks like katrina kaife Friday, December 5, 2008 Katrina Kaif appears
to be very tolerant of Salman parading Katrina-lookalike Zarine Khan around
the party zone of Bollywood. "She is so sweet and I helped her with her
make-up during her screen test," she says, "She's a lovely girl and I hope
she does very well. Although I do not think she looks like me. But if Salman
misses me and wants to work with girls who look like me, that is so sweet."
Zarene Khan appears in
Veer alongside Salman, as does Miss UK Liza Lazarus. Salman, however, denies
that Zarine looks like Katrina: "Zareene doesn’t resemble Katrina at all.
I spotted her at Subhash Ghai’s film school Whistling Woods when she came
there for casting. She was taken because she looks the character - the
sweet princess she is playing in Veer," he argues. And yet, it's said that
Zarine acted as Katrina's body double in Yuvraaj?
As well as Santoshi's
movie, she was also working on De Dhana Dhan with Akshay Kumar and Sameera
Reddy. The actors on De Dhana Dhan apparently had a meeting and decided
to press on with the shoot even though they were afraid as the events unfolded.
Sameera Reddy said, "A TV reporter asked me how we could sing and dance
when such grim tragedies were happening? I was so upset! Why should we
give in to fear and paranoia and stop working? We worked through Thursday
to all the days and completed the schedule on time."
Meanwhile, Katrina is working
on Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani. Director Rajkumar Santoshi has turned a
studio in Mumbai into the island of Goa for the shoot - the movie also
stars Ranbir Kapoor. Even during the militant attack on Mumbai, Katrina
kept on working such is the discipline of her schedule.
