Mumbai: Actor Lara Dutta recently shared a rather unusual yet scary incident from the sets of Nitesh Tiwari’s much-anticipated film Ramayana.
The actor revealed that she almost injured her wrist after a bracelet got tightly stuck around it, forcing members of her team to step in and cut it off. She also shared a video capturing the incident.
Lara, who essays the role of Kaikeyi in the epic, took to Instagram to share several pictures and videos from the film’s sets.
The visuals feature her in elaborate traditional outfits and heavy jewellery, along with glimpses of her makeup and costume team preparing her for the role.
One particular video caught everyone’s attention. It showed Lara seated inside her vanity van as a team member struggled to remove a bracelet stuck around her wrist.
When their attempts proved unsuccessful, they eventually had to use a hacksaw blade to cut it off.
Reacting to the incident, Lara took a humorous approach and penned a playful note alongside the video.
“To look like this, there’s a whole lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes!! Including almost having your wrist sawn off!!” she wrote.
Speaking to News18, Lara addressed the criticism surrounding the film’s costumes and explained the thought process behind the team’s choices for her character.
She said, “I know what the reason was for us to pick certain kinds of garments and the way that we wanted those to be depicted. It’s such a vast project that you’re undertaking and one nitpicked on such tiny things.”
The actor also recalled an early conversation with director Nitesh Tiwari about Kaikeyi’s jewellery.
She wondered whether the queen, given her origins in the kingdom of Kekaya, would have had a distinct collection of ornaments and brought her own stree-dhan.
She added, “One of my first conversations with Nitesh sir was that if Kaikeyi came from the kingdom of Kekaya, wouldn’t her jewellery be very different from the other two queens? Wouldn’t she bring her own stree-dhan? But if you want to get into such minute details, then you’re opening up a Pandora’s box and then you would’ve historians and other experts coming up and saying, ‘Oh, how can this be shown and depicted?’ So, there was a standardisation that was decided to be adopted across all three kingdoms – Mithila, Ayodhya and Lanka – to differentiate between those cultures.”
Produced by Namit Malhotra and directed by Nitesh Tiwari, the epic features Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita and Yash as Ravana.
The first instalment has crossed the ₹1,000 crore mark worldwide within eight days of its release, while the second part is scheduled to arrive in 2028.