MUMBAI: Milan Luthria‘s Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobara (OUATIMD) features SonaliBendre in a "guest appearance". Her association with the director goes back a long way and that is why she agreed to be a part of the underworld drama.

Produced by Balaji Motion Pictures, the film features her as Mumtaz. She will be seen on the big screen after a gap of nearly a decade when the film releases on 15 Aug.

Sonali‘s last big screen outing was again a guest appearance in Shah Rukh Khan, Priety Zinta and Saif Ali Khan starrer Kal Ho Naa Ho, in which she had played a doctor.

OUATIMD stars Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha in the main lead.

Another reason for Sonali to give a nod to OUATIMD was its producer Shobha Kapoor, who is a good friend of her mother-in-law.

"Shobha aunty has been friends with my mother-in-law for the past 40 years. So, when she calls her and asks for me to do something, I can‘t say no to her. So it‘s just that," said the actress known for films like Sarfarosh and Zakhm.

"I have not charged them for anything. So it‘s not a professional kind of a thing for me, it‘s just a guest appearance that I am doing for the people that are involved in it. It‘s a very interesting literal role," added the 38-year-old actress.