Mumbai: Taking a trip down memory lane, Zeenat Aman recalled working with Amitabh Bachchan in the1983 film ‘Pukar.’
The senior Bollywood actress took to her Instagram handle and shared the video of the song ‘Samundar Mein Nahake’ from the film and said that her co-star Amitabh “pranced around her like an ardent bird of paradise” during the shooting of the song.
Zeenat captioned the post as, “Uff.. I’ll be candid. This is a bit of a gratuitous post brought on by the summer. It’s just so damn hot! The weather, I mean. Though I won’t be too coy to say that Mr Bachchan and I romancing to those salty lyrics are quite sizzling too. Director-producer Ramesh Behl’s Pukar was a blast to shoot. Its anti-colonial underpinning, excellent cast and catchy songs were what drew me to the script.”
Speaking about her look in the song, Zeenat shared that she “was in a titillating white outfit, with a bit of midriff on display, rolling around in the surf”.
While talking about the shooting of the song, she said, “Now Goa in the early 80s was quiet, idyllic and unpeopled. So Samundar Mein Naha Ke was shot on an empty beach, and it was an easy-breezy affair. For me, at least! I didn’t have any lip-syncing to do, nor much choreography to learn. The brief was as basic as they come – look pretty! So there I was in a titillating white outfit, with a bit of midriff on display, rolling around in the surf, while Mr Bachchan pranced around me like an ardent bird of paradise.”
“My otherwise seamless performance was hindered by one small fact – I can’t swim! I had to swallow a fair amount of nerves (and seawater) for those shots of me writhing in the swash! Despite taking a few tumbles in the waves and being left with sand in uncomfortable places, I thought I did a convincing job of being a jal pari (mermaid). Whether romantic or platonic, send this post to the person who owes you a beachside getaway this summer!” she added.
Directed by Ramesh Behl, ‘Pukar’ also starred Randhir Kapoor and Tina Munim, among others.
