Anushka Shrama reveals her role in her upcoming flick, Jab Tak Hai Jaan, opposite SRK andf Katrina Kaif. Just recently, news was abuzz that who would wear the white chiffon sari (a trademark of a Yash Chopra films) in the film. We now know it’s Katrina who will be the lucky one to adorn the sari. Anushka Sharma, on the other had will mostly be seen in white ganhjis. Her role is that of a “very hardworking and ambitious girl” and a sari will not go with her character in the film.
“I know that there is something like an image about Yashji’s heroines but maybe I am the new age Yash Chopra heroine. There is going to be a white chiffon sari but I am the white ganji girl and that’s what I am going to be wearing,” Anushka told in an interview.
She added, “My role is of a girl of 21-year-old girl who is very hard working and ambitious. She is working for Discovery channel and is trying to make a documentary. I don’t fit into the saree image because of the character but she has the same emotions so it is a Yash Chopra love.”
The 24-year-old also said she is fortunate to be doing a film with Yash Chopra, and that too his comeback after eight long years makes it even more special.
Says Anushka, “I would have had an incomplete career if I did not have a film by Yash Chopra because everyone called me an Yash Chopra heroine as I was launched by Yash Raj Films. I was doing lot of YRF films but I was not actually a Yash Chopra heroine till I did this film.”V
Post JTHJ, she will be seen in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola. Also, Rajkumar Hirani’s Peekay and Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet are lined up for the actress.