Raashii Khanna reveals she initially refused audition for debut film Madras Cafe

Actress Raashii Khanna revealed that she was initially not interested in auditioning for her debut film ldquoMadras Caferdquo which released in 2013 and featured John Abraham as the leadIt was in Farah Khanrsquos YouTube show where the actress made the revelation along with making her favourite recipe of ldquokale chane ka pulaordquoldquoI ran away from the first audition There were a lot of people It was an ad It was a lip gloss ad I was scared seeing so many people I was always very shyrdquo Raashii saidTo which Farah replied ldquoIt wasnrsquot Mukesh ChabrardquoldquoNo They sent me to small auditionsrdquo said Raashii who added ldquo There were auditions But they didnt call a lot of people There were no open auditions I got an ad I got a call from casting director Jogi Ji Jogi Ji said Madras Cafe casting is happeningrdquoldquoI said lsquoI am not interested in films I dont want to do it I am here for a time passrsquo I refused twice The third time I said out of respectrdquo Raashii saidldquoMadras Caferdquo is a political action thriller film directed by National Awardwinning filmmaker Shoojit Sircar The film also stars Nargis FakhriThe film is set in the late 1980s and early 1990s during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv GandhiThe film revolves around an Indian soldier who is appointed by the intelligence agency RampampAW to head covert operations in Jaffna shortly after the Indian peacekeeping force was forced to withdrawFarah found it unbelievable that Raashii said noldquoPeople are dying to go for a movie auditionrdquo Farah added and also asked ldquoAfter the audition you got a filmrdquoldquoThat was my first film After that I started getting films from the southrdquoRaashii then said that the languages she knows are ldquoPunjabi Hindi English Tamil and TelugurdquoldquoYou could have been in the embassy As an interpreter or something like thatrdquo said a stunned FarahRaashii added ldquoThe idea was I wanted to be an IAS officer But now I feel like even as an actor we can do so much for people That was the idea I am happy to be an actorrdquoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoeveratOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params