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Aditi Rao Hydari reveals there was a ‘drought’ of offers after Heeramandi: ‘I thought it’s going to be a bauchhaar of interesting stuff’
Aditi Rao Hydari revealed that while she expected a host of interesting offers after the global popularity of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, she barely found anything enticing coming her way.

Who can forget the viral Gajgamini walk of Aditi Rao Hydari in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s debut show Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, a period drama which released on Netflix India last year? Or her stirring patriotic scream in the closing moments of the finale episode? However, these standout moments did little for Aditi on the professional front, as the actor revealed recently.
“After Heeramandi, the way everybody went on and on, and how it was loved and I thought now it is going to be a bauchaar (shower) of interesting stuff and then cut to… I am like, ‘What’s going on?’ It was really like a drought,” Aditi said, talking to friend and choreographer-filmmaker Farah Khan in an episode of the latter’s cookery show on YouTube.
A surprised Farah then asked Aditi, “Really? Tabhi tune shaadi kar li (That is why you got married)!” To which, Aditi responded, “Actually! No seriously we had to space it out so that we get could get back from work, get married and then get back to work. But the wedding was a lot of fun.” Aditi tied the knot with boyfriend and actor Siddharth in September last year.
Aditi and Siddharth had a traditional south Indian wedding which took place at a 400-year-old Sri Ranganayakaswamy Temple, located at Srirangapur in Wanaparthy District, Telangana. The two had their wedding photoshoot at a fort-turned-luxury hotel in Bhishangarh in Rajasthan.
Aditi revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India after their wedding that the feminist in her was “appalled” when Siddharth proposed to be a stay-at-home dad to their cat and dog. “So now we have to worry about the longevity of my career. Having said that, I’m very content and secure. If you tell me tomorrow that nobody is ever going to make a film with me again, I won’t lose sleep over it,” Siddharth confessed in the same interview.
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In Heeramandi, Aditi Rao Hydari played the role of Bibbojaan, a courtesan and a closeted freedom fighter in pre-Independence India set in a locality of Lahore, present-day Pakistan. Heeramandi marked Aditi’s second collaboration with Bhansali after Padmaavat (2018), in which she played the wife of Alauddin Khulji, essayed by Ranveer Singh. Meanwhile, Siddharth will be next seen in the Netflix India cricket film Test, also starring R Madhavan and Nayanthara.


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