Playing a village belle was quite a challenge: Gayatri Bhardwaj

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By Prakash Pecheti

09/10/2023

Gayatri Bhardwaj plays an unfamiliar character in the upcoming movie Tiger Nageswara Rao starring Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja and directed by Vamsee.

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Gayatri’s father is a pilot and her mother is a psychologist. Her tryst with the fashion world happened when she was seven. Her fascination for cinema happened unknowingly.

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“Director Vamsee narrated my character for three hours. I got emotional after the narration. Later, I learned that 60 female actors auditioned for the role.”

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“It was quite a challenging task to play a village girl. Director Vamsee and my co-star Ravi Teja garu have taken up the task of training me to get the right expressions,” she recalled.

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“Working with a star like Ravi Teja is a great experience. He cracks jokes with everyone on the sets. He is such fun. “

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“Only after working on the film, I came to know the real-life story of Nageswara Rao. The real-life thief had left an imprint even in Delhi during those times,” Gayatri Bhardwaj added.

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Tiger Nageswara Rao is a real-life story of Nageswara Rao, from Andhra Pradesh’s Stuartpuram area, who was involved in robberies, jewellery thefts, and bank heists during the 70s and 80s.

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Though the film is inspired by a real story, it is packed with fictional elements to give the glossy look of a proper commercial potboiler.

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