Priyanka Chopra’s first item number for Shootout at Wadala in the offing
Updated : May 01, 2014 03:09 AM IST
Miss India and Miss World of 2000 and the National Award winning actress,Priyanka Chopra,will be for the first time performing an item number inSanjay Gupta’s forthcoming film,Shootout at Wadala. The actresswill rock on a composition byAnu Malik, Babli Badmaash Hai.
The director confirmed the news by saying, “I chased Priyanka for six months before she agreed to do this song. It will be shot in thenext 3-4 days in Mumbai”. Sanjay continued telling about the song that the song has the 70’s touch and it is a tribute to his two favourite legends. He added commenting, “Feroz Khan and RD Burman are two people I wanted to work with in my career and this song is an ode to them. Probably if they worked together the result would’ve been this song”.
When asked as why only Priyanka for the song, he replied, “If there was someone who I thought could recreate the magic of Zeenat Aman or Parveen Babi, then it could only have been Priyanka”. Gupta further added that to convince the 30-year-old was very hard. He first told her the story and Priyanka made sure that the lyrics of the song should not create any controversy.