A few months after a fan-edit video of K-pop band BTS dancing to Chunari Chunari, Money Heist actor Itziar Ituño’s rendition of the 90s hit is being widely shared online.
Picturised on Salman Khan and Sushmita Sen in the film Biwi No 1, the song was sung by Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Anuradha Sriram.
Sen took to Twitter to lend her stamp of approval to Ituño’s rendition. “Yeh baat! (That's the spirit!)” she wrote, adding a bunch of emojis.
Ituño plays Raquel Murillo (Lisbon) in the hit Netflix series. In an earlier interview to News18, Ituño had opened up about her love for Bollywood dance moves and hits.
Yeh baat!!! 😄🎵👏❤️💃🏻 #ChunariChunari https://t.co/IBAxbH3veU
— sushmita sen (@thesushmitasen) November 14, 2020
Previously, fans had discovered an India connect for actors Alba Flores and Miguel Herrán, who play Nairobi and Rio on the show, respectively. Herrán starred in a desi commercial almost five years ago and his fans are only just noticing it. Earlier, a video of Nairobi actor Alba Flores speaking Telugu in the Spanish film Vicente Ferrer (2013), had gone viral as well. Alba played a Telugu woman in the film.
Director Alex Rodrigo also picked a hypothetical desi cast for the show. In an interview to YouTube channel BehindwoodsTV, Rodrigo was shown pictures of several Indian actors such as Vijay and Shah Rukh Khan, and asked to cast them in the roles. Rodrigo said that it wasn’t easy to pick one, but that Ayushmann Khurrana could qualify as the professor.
But upon observing more celebrities, Rodrigo had shortlisted Vijay as the Professor, Mahesh Babu as Tamayo, Ajith Kumar as Bogota and Shah Rukh as Berlin. He also picked Ranveer Singh as Denver, and Surya as Suarez.
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