Esha Deol was not offered Chandramukhi

It would have been the casting coup of the year. Lara Dutta as Paro and Esha Deol whose mother Hema Malini had been cast in a shelved version of Devdas directed by Gulzar, as Chandramukhi. Alas. the story which did the rounds of the Lara-Esha combo (last seen together in the shiver giver Kaal) last week has no basis. Pritish Nandy who spearheads the booming Pritish Nandy Communications, informs, "It