Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra,
one
of
the
most
successful
filmmaker
in
Bollywood,
has
revealed
that
he
was
keen
on
casting
Aishwarya
Rai
Bachchan
for
the
role
of
Lalita
in
his
2005's
musical
film
Parineeta.
But
it
was
director
Pradeep
Sarkar,
who
introduced
actress
Vidya
Balan
to
him
and
she
took
away
lots
of
laurels
for
her
performance
in
the
film.
The
Bollywood
filmmaker
was
talking
about
cast
of
Parineeta
when
he
spoke
about
Aishwarya
Rai.
Vidhu
Vinod
Chopra
told
PTI,
"When
we
thought
of
Parineeta,
I
immediately
thought
of
a
face
like
Aishwarya
Rai.
The
character
of
the
girl
is
like
two
men
fall
in
love
with
her.
So
the
heroine
has
to
be
bigger.
But
director
Pradeep
Sarkar
told
me
about
Vidya
and
I
was
like
let
me
see
what
she
can
do.
But
then
we
tested
and
tried
her
and
she
cleared
it."
The
critically
acclaimed
film
Parineeta
was
an
adaptation
of
1914
Bengali
novella
of
the
same
name,
which
was
penned
by
Sarat
Chandra
Chattopadhyay.
The
movie
featured
Saif
Ali
Khan
and
Sanjay
Dutt
along
side
Vidya
Balan.
Talking
about
other
roles,
Vidhu
Chopra
said,
"I
had
called
up
Sanjay
saying
there
is
a
role
for
you
in
my
film
and
he
agreed.
We
wanted
the
character
of
Girish
(Sanjay)
to
be
bigger
than
Shekar
(Saif
Ali
Khan)."