Who will play Sita?

Director Nitesh Tiwari and producer Madhu Mantena are going blue in the face denying the amazing casting brainwaves for their three-part feature film on the Ramayana that they intend to collaborate on. While Hrithik Roshan as Rama is  seriously being explored, Deepika Padukone as Sita was purely conjectural. And now we read Shraddha Kapoor has ‘turned down’ Luv Ranjan’s film with Ajay Devgan and Ranbir Kapoor to play Sita in Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayan. Shraddha is the leading lady of Tiwari’s hit film Chhichhore, hence the speculative casting. But the truth is that she hasn’t been approached to play Sita. A source reveals, “Nitesh and Madhu Mantena will begin casting only after the former completes his screenplay for all the three parts of the film. Hrithik has verbally said yes to Rama. But there is no Deepika or Shraddha as Sita, and certainly no Prabhas as Raavan. These are fans of the Ramayan and of the stars mentioned, indulging in wishful thinking.”