Mumbai: Actress Kajol, who is known for her straightforward and jolly nature, recalled an incident when she couldn’t stop laughing while shooting an emotional scene for ‘Baazigar.’
Sharing the behind-the-scenes anecdote from the 1993 blockbuster film, Kajol revealed that while shooting for the ‘dead body’ scene, she was in splits looking at Shilpa’s perfectly polished nails.
The actress further shared that director duo Abbas-Mustan scolded her for behaving that way just before shooting the emotional scene.
“Bechari Shilpa ke saath hua (Poor Shilpa was in the scene.) It was the dead body sequence, and for some reason, I just couldn’t stop laughing looking at her feet. I looked at them and thought, ‘Who applies this much nail polish while dying?’ I was laughing uncontrollably just looking at her feet,” Kajol told The Lallantop during its Guest in the Newsroom show.
She added, “I kept laughing, “Oh my god this is so funny, Shilpa’s feet and nail polish’. Aur Abbas bhai said, “Baby no, listen, you have to give shot right now and cry.” But I couldn’t control myself. Toh Abbas bhai ne fir daanta mujhe uss time ki (eventually, he scolded me) ‘Stop it. Imagine if it was your real sister, then would you be laughing like this? Toh ekdum flip hogaya mera fir mood (That completely flipped my mood).”
However, this didn’t go down well with the netizens, who started trolling her for being rude and insensitive.
One user commented, “Kajol had all the confidence in the world because she belonged to the industry. And people made space for Kajol’s inappropriateness, camouflaging as rudeness.”
Another wrote, “The interviewer is not amused one bit and neither me.”
Another commented, “She could afford that laidback approach because she was a nepo kid. If Shilpa had done the same, they would’ve removed her from the movie or the producer would’ve given her a lecture.”
One Reddit user called her a “bully”.
While another wrote, “she gets away with rudeness.”
Directed by Abbas-Mustan, the film featured Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, and Shilpa Shetty in lead roles. The film had left cash registers ringing at the box-office.
On the work front, Kajol will be next seen in Karan Johar’s ‘Sarzameen.’
Directed by Boman Irani’s son Kayoze Irani, the film, which also stars Prithviraj Sukumaran and Ibrahim Ali Khan, is slated to release on Jio Hotstar on July 25.