A six-year-old Bahraini girl has been cast in one of the biggest Bollywood films of the year- Sultan.
Suzi Khan was first discovered through a viral video of her professing her love for Salman Khan last year.
We spoke to Suzi's mum Madiha Arai about how she landed the role and the story is like a Bollywood film itself.
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Here is an excerpt from the interview :
“As a parent, I want to give everything to my child, anything she wishes for.
“So this January, I told my family I was going to take Suzi to India to meet Salman Khan – and they told me I was crazy.”
Once in Mumbai, she managed to reach his assistant and put her case forward.
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“I called him and told him my daughter was crazy about him,” she said.
“He said it was impossible, because he had people coming from the US, Australia, from around the world and if I started entertaining the requests, Salman would never have time to work.
“I told him I’d send him videos and asked him to just show it to him.
“Within 10 minutes, I got a call back and he said that we were lucky, because Salman wanted to see Suzi.
“We went to his ranch the next day, which was three hours out of Mumbai.
“As soon as she saw him she ran to him and hugged him and started to cry and cry, it was a very emotional moment for me, for her, even for Salman.
“I thought it was going to be two or three minutes with him in order to take a picture, but something else happened completely.
Read the complete interview in tomorrow's Gulf Daily News.
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