Sonam Kapoor, Dhanush's 'Raanjhana' Filming Delayed by a Month

Sonam Kapoor, Dhanush's 'Raanjhana

Filming of Aanand L Rai's Raanjhanaa, featuring Sonam Kapoor and Dhanush, has been delayed by a month to give the South star more time to brush up his Hindi and the Varanasi dialect.
"Dhanush is currently in Namibia shooting action scenes for his next Tamil film. He joins the cast in Mumbai on Thursday and then is here for a month to work on his language and diction. It's not just Hindi, he also has to master the Varanasi dialect," Rai told DNA.
Filming was to begin in June after Sonam's Cannes tour.
Post Cannes, Sonam went to London and Las vegas before returning to Mumbai on Sunday, June 3.
Interestingly, Rai has brought Abhay Deol on board for a cameo. He will play an articulate soft-spoken batch-mate of Sonam at JNU. The film will show the two of them often brainstorming on issues related to politics and life in general - a role in contrast to their last film together Aisha .
Reportedly, getting Abhay into the role of an intellectual was a breeze but Rai struggled to make Sonam, the fashionista, look convincing in a deglam role of a thinking and politically-conscious JNU girl.
Raanjhanaa is a love story set in Varanasi, Delhi and Punjab.
Sonam was last seen in Abbas Mustan's Players (2012) which was a box-office dud. She plays a cameo in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag which headlines Farhan Akhtar.
Dhanush, Rajnikanth's son-in-law, became an overnight international sensation with his 'Kolaveri Di' song from his recent Tamil film, '3,' a box-office hit. The film features Shruti Haasan as the female lead.