Kanika Tiwari from the State capital - City girl bags role in Agneepath

This is life-time achievement for 15-year-old Kanika Tiwari from the State capital, as she has been selected to play Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan's younger sister in the forthcoming film Agneepath.

Her role is about an hour long. Kanika, who studies in Class XI in Sharda Vidya Mandir in Bhopal, was selected after the audition of 6,500 girls. Agneepath, a remake of Amitabh Bachchan starrer 1990 movie with the same name, will be releasing on Republic Day.

Kanika Tiwari is much excited about the life-time opportunity she has grabbed.

अग्निपथ में ऋतिक की बहन का किरदार निभाने वाली कनिका तिवारी

Agneepath Kanika Tiwari

Talking to mediapersons, Kanika said, "I used to take part in cultural activities in school. I participated in a few dramas also. My grooming teacher Ravindra Mathur told me to take part in the audition of Dharma Production, which was searching for a young girl to play Hrithik Roshan's younger sister's role.

She has almost an hour-long role in the movie and she will share screen space with Hrithik, Priyanka Chopra, Rishi Kapoor and Zarina Wahab. Excited Kanika said, "Zarina Wahab is my mother and Rishi Kapoor is the one who kidnaps me in the movie."

The only connection Kanika has with showbiz is her cousin, television actress Divyaka Tripathi ofBano Mein Teri Dulhan fame.

In the movie Hrithik Roshan is playing the character of Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, which Amitabh Bachchan played in the original movie. Both the characters have much dissimilarity though.