Rani Plays Cricket

After playing an angel in "Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic", actress Rani Mukerji is all set to do another unconventional role - she plays a cricketer in Yash Raj Films' next venture and is busy practising on the field!

"I don't know if any actress has played a cricketer before. But I'm playing one for sure. In fact, I've been learning cricket regularly on the field for the past two months. I can most certainly play the game convincingly now, though not as good as professionals yet. It's a very big challenge for me," Rani told IANS from her swanky new home here.

So is she equipped to join the Indian Premier League now (IPL) now?

"I don't know about that. But I'm definitely enjoying it. My practical sessions are on in full swing."

She will also for the first time be paired opposite Shahid Kapur in the film that will be directed by debutant Anurag Singh.

Rani says she is hungry for new roles. "At this stage of my career I feel I need new challenges. When Kunal Kohli offered me an angel's role, I was kicked. I don't now of any actress who has played an angel before.

"Also, for the first time I was playing a character who couldn't cry. Now they can stop saying Rani cries so much in all her films. It was pretty cool to play a character who actually doesn't know how to cry and who had to fly around like Hrithik (Roshan) in 'Krrish'."

Being suspended on a harness, she says, was not easy.

"It required a lot of physical strength to assume the correct 'flying' posture on the harness. I guess it'd be equally difficult for me to look convincing as a cricketer. But I'm glad to be doing work with challenges."

So is she ok working with a first-time director?

"It isn't as if I haven't worked with new directors before. I was in Shaad Ali's first film 'Saathiya', remember? And Kunal Kohli started his career with me in 'Mujhse Dosti Karoge'," she quipped.

After an angel and a cricketer what would Rani like to play?

"Maybe an astronaut like Kalpana Chawla. And I'd also love to play a doctor. I've never done that before. Come to think of it I've never worked with Shahid Kapur before either. I'm doing so now."

Isn't there a danger of her being branded a resident Yash Raj heroine since all her recent films have been with that banner alone?

"Why? Wasn't 'Saawariya' with Sanjay Leela Bhansali? And if Yash Raj is making some of the best films in our country why should I keep out just because people are talking?

"Incidentally, my marriage date Feb 10 (as reported by some media) has come and gone. Would mediapersons like to set another date for me so I can start getting my trousseau ready?"

Source:Indo-Asian News Service

Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic- Movie Preview

An angel who doesn't know what love is, a man who always lost love, four orphans who need love - all come together to bring you a film with fun, excitement, masti, tears, magic and love!

Ranbeer Talwar (Saif Ali Khan), one of the country's top industrialists, is a loner, not by choice, but because he lost everyone he ever loved. He is now faced with a very peculiar and uncomfortable situation.

In a rare and landmark court verdict, he is to look after 4 orphan children. The orphans hate him and want revenge from him. The children do not want to live with a man they hate; he too cannot face them or look them in the eye for certain reasons. Their life together is very unhappy.

One day they pray to God for help and he does help them. He sends his most mischievous, childlike, lovable angel to the rescue, with a mission to bring Ranbeer and the kids together. Geeta (Rani Mukerji) comes bicycling down a rainbow… and bursts into Ranbeer's house as the selfproclaimed new nanny.

And then starts the roller coaster ride of fun, emotions, magic and love.

More about the characters:

Ranbeer Talwar (Saif Ali Khan) : From the time Ranbeer Talwar was a young boy he lost everyone close to him. He became a loner. He was an achiever from the time he was a boy, but no victory, no trophy meant anything to him, as he was alone. The one thing he always wanted in his life was love and that was the only thing he always lost. A winner in every deal, in every aspect of his life, Ranbeer immersed

himself in his work and completely ignored every other aspect of his life, until he is face to face with four orphans who need love and an angel who could not love.

Geeta (Rani Mukherji) : Geeta is like a storm who barges into Ranbeer's life when he and the four orphans find it difficult to live with each other. Geeta comes with a mission from heaven to unite Ranbeer and the kids, but something happens on the way... an angel who could not love starts wondering what love is. An angel who is above all human emotions of tears and pain and love, starts to feel something. But how can an angel love? She's on a mission - she has to go back when it's done.

Vashisht, Aditi, Iqbal and Avantika

When the four Walia children are orphaned, they decide one thing - they don't need any relatives to take care of them as they have what they need to survive - they have each other. But what they really want is revenge from the man they hate - Ranbeer Talwar.

'Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic' will, simultaneously, appeal to kids and adults.

Source: Bollywood Hungama