Nargis Fakhri speaks in her own voice in Madras Cafe

26 Jul 2013

What Ranbir Kapoor couldn't do for Nargis Fakhri, John Abraham has managed to do. In Shoojit Sircar's Madras Cafe Nargis speaks her lines in her own voice. An essential privilege and prerogative for every actor was denied to Nargis in her debut film Rockstar, where her co-star Ranbir tried his utmost to polish up her Hindi to the extent that she would be able to speak her own lines.

But it didn't work out. Now Ranbir can smile to hear Nargis speaking in her own voice in her second film. But there is a catch to this. Nargis plays a European journalist. So she doesn't have to speak any Hindi.

Shoojit confirms, "I've tried to keep it as real as possible. Nargis plays a foreign journalist. A press correspondent from Europe." Nargis' accent sounds distinctly American. But that's another story altogether.