Popular Marathi Television and film actor Santosh Juvekar has bagged a lead role in Vishal Bharadwaj‘s next Hindi film ‘Rani‘ and that to opposite Bollywood’s top actress Deepika Padukone. The news was disclosed by a Marathi TV channel ABP Majha today. In this film Santosh Juvekar will play a Policeman and Deepika Padukone will play his wife. It is understood that Vishal Bharadwaj had shortlisted two actors for this role based on their auditions and both of them happened to be from Marathi film industry; namely Santosh Juvekar and Jitendra Joshi.

Finally, the choice of Santosh Juvekar was confirmed by the film maker and the news spread quickly among the well wishers of Santosh Juvekar, who has a big fan following, after performing as an angry young man in recent Marathi films. For the past few months, Santosh Juvekar has been very active to help the Thane Traffic Police in their mission to spread awareness among people about observing Traffic rules. So, this role of a Policeman will surely boost his morale.

The film also stars another top actor from Bollywood and he is Irrfan Khan. But, due to the ongoing treatment of Irrfan Khan due to his ailment, the shooting of this film will begin after some time. For Santosh Juvekar this is a big achievement and we at Marathi Movie World wish him all the best.