Shooting in filthy prison added to Ileana’s performance
Ileana D’Cruz, who is playing family, how their property and tons a queen in a royal family of of gold were looted by the Rajasthan in the upcoming government and how Geetanjali film Baadshaho, says some with the help of some of her close sequences of the movie were subordinates, struggles to rescue shot in a real “filthy” prison and that the gold.
added to her performance. Sharing According to Ileana, this is one of her experience of shooting in the the rare characters she is portraying multi-starrer film, Ileana said,“My that is quite close to her personality. character Geetanjali is based on a “You know, Geetanjali (her character real character from Rajasthan’s royal name in the film) goes through a lot family. I found the character very of troubles without losing her cool, interesting, so was the shooting because she is a strong woman, sure process. As my character goes through in her head about what she wants a journey, various emotional ups and and how she will get that.There are down points of them, one of the some similarities in my journey too. memorable shooting experiences Fortunately, I have a very good was during the shoot in a filthy jail. upbringing that makes me a strong “It was quite a suffocating space person, I know what I want from life where we shot. Interestingly, my and I never settled for less,” said character was also going through Ileana, who earlier featured in Barfi! a suffocating phase of her life in and Rustom. the film. So I think shooting in After debuting in Telugu film
the filthy prison added to my Devadasu and cementing her space in performance in the film. Oh southern filmdom, Ileana entered God...There was some weird Bollywood in 2012 with Anurag Basu’s
stink... But the whole Barfi!.Though she does not come from atmosphere added some a film family, in a gradual process, she authenticity to the character,” said manages to find a way to see the the actress. potential of a good script for her.
Set in 1975, during the time of Baadshaho also featuring Ajay Emergency, the story of Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta Baadshaho – directedby Milan and Vidyut Jammwal releases on Luthria – revolves around a royal Friday.