By
RUBY ZAIDI
The casting director of Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, Shruti Mahajan spoke about the process of casting Taha Shah Badussha as Tajdar. She told Bollywood Reporter, “Taha was cast through multiple rounds of auditions. And Taha being Taha, he kept calling me saying he wanted to be a part of Heeramandi: The diamond bazaar he was in touch with me for a long while. Initially, I asked Taha if he would like to audition for a character part and he said, ‘You just take my audition and show it to Mr Bhansali’. I called him up and told him that the character role was not working for him, and he, being full of drama, started saying how he has struggled for years and now he is not even getting a part like this. ‘It always happens, my bad luck,’ he mentioned. Then I told him that there was another part if he would like to audition for. We had multiple rounds of auditions and look tests for Tajdar and the rest is history.”
Taha Shah Badussha is now the crush number one in the country and accross the globe since he has played the lead in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar on Netflix. Taha Shah Badussha is very much thankful to Sanjay Leela Bhansali and he also thanked Shruti for the auditions.
