A quiet, leafy South Delhi neighbourhood was abuzz Friday morning as news trickled into homes and busy markets that Bollywood star Rani Mukerji was shooting in one of the houses.
“Did you know that Rani is in ChittaranjanPark,” squealed Manushi, a 20-year-old househelp, as she excitedly passed on the news on the phone to her friends in the neighbourhood – and beyond.
Rani is in the capital to shoot for “Mardaani”. Being directed by Pradeep Sarkar and produced by Aditya Chopra, the film will see the actress in khakis.
Burly private guards, wearing black safari suits, cordoned off an entire area around a neighbourhood park, not allowing even househelps and courier boys to transgress the road leading to the house.
Many older residents were upset at this “unwarranted intrusion” into neighbourhood peace, but the younger ones revelled in a sense of pride of their neighbourhood being a location for a Bollywood film.