The film Baazigar, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Shilpa Shetty, released in 1993, proved to be a milestone in her career. Now director Mastan has revealed about the scene of this film. In a recent interview, the director revealed how a 17-year-old Kajol used to laugh at the death of her onscreen sister Shilpa Shetty. At that time, Kajol was not aware of the seriousness of the scene. In such a situation, the director said something to make Kajol emotional for the scene, after which the story changed.
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Kajol laughed seeing the dead body
Shah Rukh Khan’s character throws Shilpa Shetty off the roof. In this scene, Shilpa’s dead body is lying on the ground with her eyes open. Seeing this, Kajol’s character started crying. But seeing the dead body’s eyes open, Kajol could not stop laughing. The director faced difficulties in doing this scene. In such a situation, Mastan compared Dead Body to sister Tanisha to get Kajol to do that scene.
The director said something mean to make me cry
In an interview to Radio Nasha, director Mastan said, ‘We called her (Kajol) and said, ‘Imagine that this dead girl lying on the ground is your younger sister Tanisha. What would you do if you saw your own sister covered in blood? She immediately started crying. She kept crying even after sitting in the car. We shot this shot in just one take and everything he did in the scene was real. Kajol could not stop crying imagining her sister’s death.