Here's why Fanney Khan director cast Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with Rajkummar Rao

Among the many things that '

Fanney Khan

' is being talked about is for the unusual pairing of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Rajkummar Rao. Atul Manjrekar, who makes his directorial debut with the film, said that it's the characters of the film that decided the cast. He reveals that while creating the character of the

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, she had to be most beautiful woman in the country, an amazing dancer with a perfect voice, and he couldn't think of anyone else but Aishwarya in the role. He feels that she has a God-like quality as well as there is the fact that young girls look up to her. For Adhir Singh, when he tried to put a face for it, he couldn't think of anyone but Rajkummar to play the endearing character, who wears his heart on his sleeves.

Apart from working with a dream cast, Atul says he cherishes the experience of working with actors and technicians who were not only professionals, but also held his hand through the entire process of his making his first film.