MUMBAI: Actor and producer Gehana Vasisth who runs her own production house GV Studios had said she would like Bigg Boss 16 first runner-up and winner of Marathi Bigg Boss, Shiv Thakare to work as her hero in her upcoming film.
Now on Monday, after the Bigg Boss winner was announced, Gehana said she will try to cast celebrity businessman Raj Kundra in the same film, however in the role as a villain.
Speaking to this reporter, Gehana said, “The script of the film is ready. The story is very similar to the movie Jannat, everything is ready and the film is ready to hit the floors. The film is tentatively titled ‘Jai Maharashtra’. I want Shiv to be part of this project as my hero. But I would also like Raj Kundra to be part of the film as the villian. I am going to approach both Shiv Thakare and Raj Kundra for my project very soon.”
Gehana while speaking to us, said she thinks Priyanka Chaudhary is a great actor and according to her, Priyanka and Shiv look very good together on screen as a couple.
“If she (Priyanka Chaudhary) is interested, I would love that she is also part of this project,” Gehana had said on Sunday.
Gehana stated that Shiv Thakare is super hero material and wanted him to win the Bigg Boss 16 trophy, however fate had other plans and he was voted as the first runner-up.
“For me, Shiv is the winner of this season. I don’t care who wins finally, because there are other issues involved which I do not want to go into. But I think Shiv deserves to win and for me he is already the winner,” Gehana had told us on Sunday, hours before the results were announced.
Gehana whose real name is Vandana Tiwari, hails from Chirimiri in Chhattisgarh and spent her initial life in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. She was an anchor for a Tv channel covering the 2015 Cricket World Cup and was seen on several TV chat shows.
She has done over 100 ads and featured in films like Filmy Duniya (Hindi), Luckhnowi Ishq (Hindi), Operation Duryodhana 2 (Telugu), BTech Love story (Telugu). She was also short-listed for Ekta Kapoor’s Lock Upp reality show Season 1, but did not go on air.
On the Tv front, she was introduced as an anchor in Sahara One Television Channel. She was seen in the serial Behenein on Star Plus and appeared as a VJ on the True Life show on MTV India.
