Ban Gayi Jodi
IMP News Wire May 9, 2008

It is model Anushka Sharma who will be SRK’s pride and other wannabe’s envy in Aditya’s next ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’.

For the girl it is the start of an improbable dream. A dream to work with the hottest star & for a film under the most romantic banners of bollywood who took bollywood romance to the Swiss and the tulips of Europe.

Yash Chopra, Chairman, Yash Raj Films, today announced that the nineteen year old from Bangalore has been identified to play the female lead opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Aditya Chopra’s third film as director “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”. And it is finally the end of all the speculation and conjecture that had started about the identity of the female lead ever since the film was announced.

Said Yash Chopra, “We were looking first and foremost for someone who could truly embody the spirit of small town Punjab and we know we have found her in Anushka. And while she has no previous acting experience, we have seen that unique spark in her that makes us confident that she will be a standout even opposite Shah Rukh.