Bollywood actress Lara Dutta transformed herself for the espionage thriller BellBottom. The actress said her husband Mahesh Bhupathi was ‘shocked’ to see her look in that movie. She will be playing former prime minister Indira Gandhi in the film. Sources said that the film also stars Akshay Kumar, Vaani Kapoor and Huma Qureshi.
Look wise, Lara went through an arduous make-up and prosthetic process. She looked unrecognisable in the trailer of BellBottom. In an interview with Zoom, the actress revealed “My husband was shocked. He probably felt very unsettled with the look. He was like I don’t want to hug you. You don’t really look like yourself.” Lara also said how her daughter Saira reacted. She said, “She was intrigued. She saw it come alive in front of her… She came in and she saw whole silicon on my face and said, ‘Mum they are going to kill you, you can’t breathe.’ She was so worried. Ya, but having said that, she was also very intrigued and was like, ‘Can I touch the nose, the eyebrows? Can I do this, that?’”
The movie BellBottom is directed by Ranjit M Tewari. The plot is set in the 1980s. Akshay stars as an undercover agent tasked with rescuing 210 hostages from a hijacked plane. Dutta further added it took her three hours to sit on the makeup chair to get the look. “The idea was to capture everything correctly and make sure we are as close to the resemblance of Mrs Gandhi as possible. At the end of the day, either I play Indira Gandhi as Lara Dutta or we make Lara Dutta a close resemblance to Indira Gandhi,”
The movie will release on August 19
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