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No one could bring Karisma and Kareena Kapoor together. The last time two Bollywood sisters came together it
was for proud-mom Shobhana Samarth's Hamari Beti.
Even there Nutan and Tanuja, the first pair of famous screen- sister in Bollywood, didn't come together as sisters.
And when Deepak Tijori cast Shilpa and Shamita Shetty together in Fareb, they played rivals in love!
Big mistake. With a super-active media images from celebrities' real lives define their celluloid roles in audiences'
minds.
"If I do a film with Esha I'd have to play her mother. Nobody would accept us otherwise, " says Hema
Malini.
For the first time the two hot and in-the-news Bollywood sisters Raima and Riya have decided to come together as
sisters. And the director chosen for the task is young Vicky Chopra.
Riya is eminently kicked by the idea. "I've been dying to work with my sister. Although she's a year older to me
and although we look very different (she looks like my grandmom Suchitra Sen, I'm more like my mom Moon Moon)
Raima is like my twin.
We've been staying together in Mumbai for three years now. And there's not a
thing about our lives that we don't share."
Riya and Raima have been waiting for the right opportunity to come together. "We had offers earlier. But nothing
worth considering seriously. It made sense for us to be cast together only when we played sisters.
I don't
think audiences would accept us together as anything but siblings. We're going to have a whale of a time playing
sisters."
Vicky Chopra is Vir Chopra's son and Vidhu Vinod Chopra's nephew. The idea of casting the two Sen sisters
together came to him when Raima worked with Vinod in Parineeta and Eklavya.
Says Riya, "Most people think Raima is the sober sister while I'm the wild one. Little do they know. Raima is as
crazy as I am."
Friday, July 04, 2008 13:57 IST