![]() ![]() “Mike was offering me this fruit and he was like ‘Oh you must eat something’. Shefali said that before her final audition for director Mike Newell, she couldn’t eat anything all day. ![]() So my friends were like: ‘Oh my God maybe you’ve got a chance’ and I said: ‘No way - this is Harry Potter, a person like me wouldn’t get into Harry Potter!’ But then little did I know that I’d get called back day after day, week after week and, like Shefali said, I got put with Shefali in the last audition with Mike Newell and it all started from there really.” I literally thought I didn’t have a chance, so I just went in as myself you know, smiled a bit and out of my group of five I was the only one that got through to the next round. So we sent in after school and saw all the girls lining up and they were all looking after themselves, all combing their hair, putting make-up on. She continued, “I went to an all girls school and so everyone wanted to take part and we said: ‘Oh let’s go!’ So me and a friend had read the book, and we thought we’re never going to get in but we’re not going to lose anything. Then she said that casting agents were coming to our school to look for two Asian twins to take part in the Harry Potter films and everyone just started laughing.” And I remember just sitting there and my teacher was going through all the activities that were going on today and it was really boring. I was really getting excited, and they just kept calling back after each audition until me and Afshan auditioned together with Mike Newell the director, then we got a call back saying that we both had got it - that was it really.”Īfshan added, “In the morning (at school) we have notices and we had a notice that our form tutors just reads out. Then I got a call about a week later, maybe more, saying that I was through to the next round, so I was OK I’ve got a chance now. She continued, “I went to the first audition and I thought OK there’s a lot of girls here, I don’t know if I’ve got a chance, but there’s nothing to lose, so I just went for it. She said someone came looking for two twins for the Harry Potter books to be in the film - are you interested? And I was like yeah!” She added that since she was a fan of the series, she decided to give it a shot. I had just got out of an exam and I thought that I had done really badly in the exam, and I was in a bad mood and my teacher was waving my name at me on a sheet of paper with all these other girls. Shefali said, “It all came about when the casting agents were going round some schools in my area looking for some people to go to the auditions. In a 2005 BBC interview, the actors spoke about the nerve-wracking process of their casting. Shefali and Afshan played the Patil twins in five Harry Potter films, including the two-part finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Parts 1 and 2. Played by Shefali Chowdhury and Afshan Azad, Parvati and Padma were Harry Potter and Ron Weasley’s dates at the ball. ![]() It was the scene that properly introduced the series’ only major Indian characters, the twins Parvati and Padma Patil. For Indian Harry Potter fans, a highlight of the fourth film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was the Yule Ball. ![]()
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