Manali is floored by Googly

Manali

Manisha Dey is all praise for little

Googly

and not many know that she referred him to his beau, Abhimanyu Mukherjee. “Whenever Abhimanyu writes a script, I am the first one to read it. So, this time around, when he read out the script of Googly to me, the first child I thought of was Soumyadipta Saha. I had seen him in

Roopkatha

and then he played my son in the serial, Jamai Raja. I thought he’d a perfect fit and promptly told Abhimanyu about him. In fact, he has the complexion of Srabanti and also resembles Soham in many ways; I thought he would look like their on-screen son,” she said. Manali said on the sets of

Jamai Raja

, he’d be the cynosure of all eyes.

“He is such a foodie and asks for food at regular intervals. He would come with his grandfather and after a shot, would scream, ‘Dadu, mutton patty’. He’d have that and then say, ‘Dadu, mutton biryani’,” recalled Manali. The actress said the child actor calls her ‘Manu’ and gets angry if she calls him by his name. “One day, I was looking for him and asked, ‘Where is Soumyadipta?’ He heard it and said, ‘Naam dhore dakchho keno, ami toh tomar Googly’. He also talks about marriage a lot and told me that he’d like to get married and settle down in Bangkok soon. With him around, it’s always a laugh-a-minute riot,” she said. About Soham and Srabanti, who stammer and their son, Googly, the film is set for a summer release.