Imtiaz Ali went all the way to Prague to meet his Heer Kaul for ‘Rockstar’ opposite Ranbir Kapoor. Join the director on the latest episode of Mid-day’s Sit With Hitlist series as he explains why an Indian girl didn’t become his lead and what made him choose Nargis Fakhri, an American instead. 

Describing Nargis as the “most beautiful sexiest girl you’ll ever see”, Imtiaz recalled, “I met her for the first time in Prague. Nargis, strangely, had never been to Prague or the Czech Republic but she had a passport through her mother. So she for some reason was I think in Amsterdam or somewhere, and I had gone to recce for ‘Rockstar’ in Prague. And she happened to be just like a one-hour flight from me. And I said, ‘Can you come and meet me in Prague?’ She says, ‘Of course, I can because I have the passport. And I have never come here so this is my mother`s land’. And then we met in an exotic location.”