Viral Bhayani"Prithvi is awesome. He is a wonderful person. He is really handsome and lovely to work with. Now I know why he is such a huge star. He is a very special actor," Rani said.
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Aiyyaa is Prithviraj's debut in Bollywood, and Rani is all praises for the south actor.
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"My director Sachin Kundalkar wanted Marathi flavour. So right from the costumes to dialogues, dialect to pronunciation, everything is set right. He helped me with the Marathi dialect as I wanted to get it right," she said.
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For the Marathi film, Rani wanted to get her dialect and pronunciation right and worked towards it.
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"My character Meenakshi Deshmukh is very filmy. She is a huge fan of Sridevi, Juhi Chawla and Madhuri Dixit. She dreams about them and goes in fantasy world all the time," she said.
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In the film Rani plays the role of a Marathi girl falling in love with a Malayali boy played by Prithviraj.
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"I wanted to do something different with him. I have known his his quirky side. As I had done dark films like 'No One Killed Jessica' and to-be-released 'Talaash', I wanted to do something different, hence chose this movie," Rani said.
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Rani revealed that in real life Anurag is an entertaining person, unlike the kind of movies he makes.
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For the first look of the film, Rani was dressed up like her character, adorning a yellow-green 'navvari' sari.
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"This film is mad... funny, quirky, whacky," she said.
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"When Anurag came to me I told him that I can't do the kind of movies that he makes and that I don't want to do dark films. I told Anurag I want to do a happy film. I was surprised when Anurag told me he is offering me a happy film," Rani said at the first look unveiling of Aiyyaa.
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Produced by Kashyap and Viacom 18, Aiyyaa also stars south actor Prithviraj Sukumaran.
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Actor Rani Mukherjee, who has teamed up with Anurag Kashyap for his home production Aiyyaa, says she was not interested in doing a dark film with the director and wanted a happy, quirky movie.