How twitter got Mandira Bedi two films

The actor says the directors found her posts on the micro-blogging web site inspiring

Mandira Bedi is on cloud nine, as she has bagged a role in Saaho, which also stars Prabhas. She will play a negative role in the film that is expected to be a grand trilingual project, just like Baahubali, Prabhas’ last outing on the big screen.

Excited to be a part of the film, Mandira says, “I have started shooting and we’ve already shot for a couple of days in Hyderabad. Next, we’ll shoot in Mumbai and Abu Dhabi. What’s interesting about this film is the way makers have done the casting —lot of Hindi film actors along with many names from the South Indian film industry. So, it will become truly an all-India kind of a film.”

Though Mandira has not shot any scenes with Prabhas yet, she is looking forward to it.“I haven’t met him yet, so probably for our next schedule in Abu Dhabi, there will be some overlaps of scenes,” she says.

On how she finally bagged the role in Saaho, Mandira, who is also doing a Tamil film titled Adangathey, says, “Both the director [of Adangathey and Saaho] follow me on Twitter and based on my pictures, they related me to workout, fitness and thought of me for their respective films. [Also] they found my posts on Instagram very inspiring, hence I landed the role.”

Mandira shares that everything happened so fast that she didn’t even get time to let the feeling sink in. “I got a call from a casting director and three days later, I met the director and producer. They narrated the story to me and as it’s such a huge project, I wanted to be a part of it,” says the actor, who plays the role of a gangster in Saaho.

Based on my pictures [on Twitter] they related me to workout and fitness and thought of me for their respective films MANDIRA BEDI, ACTOR

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