Why Lara Dutta said Yes to Billu Barber

Get ready to see Lara Dutta in a non-glamorous avatar.

The pretty actress has portrayed a wide variety of roles and is all ready to surprise a lot of people with a minus makeup, minus glamorous look in SRK’s home-production BILLU BARBER.

“When Shah Rukh called,” reminisces Lara, “The first thing that struck me was, he may want to cast me in one of his international shows. But when he offered a film instead, I was zapped.”

However, the conversation that followed caught her by complete surprise. “He said two things while talking about the role in BILLU BARBER. One, it’s not opposite him, but Irrfan Khan.

Two, I’ve to portray a mother of two kids. Since I had enacted the role of a single mom in PARTNER, I didn’t mind playing a mom of two here. And why should I have problems with Irrfan? He’s an incredible actor.”

Prior to Lara, Tabu and Amisha Patel had been offered the parts, which they refused for reasons best known to the makers and the actresses.

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Lara Dutta broke up with Dino

After her breakup with her boyfriend of many years, Kelly Dorji, Lara Dutta had become quite secretive about her relationships.

So it was never all that clear whether she and her one time pal Dino Morea were actually seeing each other or not. The recent buzz said that they were indeed together and have broken up now.

Reportedly the two crossed one another’s path at the bash Shahrukh and Gauri had thrown at Mannat.

Dino Morea and Lara Dutta were guests there too. When Lara saw Dino getting closer to his ex-girlfriend, designer Nandita Mahtani, she left the party and Dino followed her.

A source confirms, “Lara, Dino, Preity, Ness, and Nandita were all seen having a conversation. Later, Preity and Ness started mingling with other guests and the trio was left to themselves. Dino and Nandita were in the chatty mode, and were seen joking and laughing. It was obvious that Lara wasn’t too comfortable with her beau’s ex around.”

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