Febrruary 4th, 2009
Mumbai: Noble laureate Amartya Sen's daughter Nandana Sen has fractured her foot severely while shooting for Vivek Oberoi's forthcoming film being directed by Kukkee Gulati.
This is certainly bad news for Ketan Mehta whose film Rang Rasiya is expected to release on February 27th as Nandana certainly won't be physically available to promote the film. It's a presence that Rang Rasiya will sorely need to raise the level of interest among people since it does not boast of A-list stars. Nandana has been advised rest by her doctors for four weeks at least.
Nandana confirms the injury saying: "It happened during the Tips film, the action flick with Vivek Oberoi. It will take four more weeks (to heal)."
Earlier a source tipped us off about the development. "Nandana was really excited to do some strenuous action scenes for this movie and had trained herself properly for the physical challenges. But she injured herself during one very challenging stunt when she landed heavily on her foot. She was in a huge amount of pain and had to be rushed to the doctor. An X-ray showed that she had fractured her foot. The team was very sad but Nandana took it as a sport. "
Another insider adds: "This is not good news for Ketan as he really needs his film to work specially after Mangal Pandey was panned so heavily by critics and did not do very well at the counters either. Rang Rasiya does not have big cast. Randeep Hooda and Nandana are the mainstays for his film and he needs to push promotions through them. Randeep was also injured sometime back but he will be fine when the promotions start. Nandana can't be around then since she cannot move around freely with a fractured foot."
So, will Ketan push back the release for his film? Let's wait and watch.
