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Actor Ameesha Patel turned heads wherever she went during the peak of her career. Her blistering start in Bollywood with movies like Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai and Gadar brought her instant stardom. Apart from her own projects, Ameesha also did smaller roles, and one of them was for the film, Thodha Pyaar Thodha Magic. The actor recently talked about shooting for that film and how one song completely changed her image in front of the audience.
Podcast host Ranveer Allahbadia asked Ameesha about her memories from the sets of the film, particularly what she remembered about shooting the song ‘Lazy Lamhe’. She said, “When people talk about a song being sexy, they talk about Lazy Lamhe. People still tell me that ‘you look so hot in that song’. The tag of being hot got attached to me because of that song, and my previous image of being the good girl completely changed. I never considered myself hot or sexy, but Aditya Chopra told me that I always had that, even in Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai.”
She added that Aditya challenged her with the role in Thodha Pyaar Thoda Magic and said, “When he called me for the part, he explained that it was a small role. Basically a bimbo; a flaky character like a dumb blonde. He asked whether I would be able to play this. That became my challenge number one, and I thought that this was a great opportunity for me as an actor. He also said, ‘There is one more challenge. I want to change your image from the pretty and beautiful girl to hot and sexy, and you’ll have to wear a bikini.’ I was very nervous, and I told him that I won’t wear the bikini, but I’ll give him what he needs as a director and become the first YRF actress to do it without wearing the bikini,” said Ameesha.
Even though Ameesha refused to don the bikini look, she managed to play the part right to a tee, and co-star Saif Ali Khan, returned the favour by assuring her of the same. She said, “I worked very hard for the song, and we shot for at least 11-12 days, even though it takes hardly 2-3 days to shoot music videos these days. I took scuba diving lessons for the song because I had to be underwater and lip-sync with the lyrics of the song. I had to train myself to hold my breath because they didn’t want bubbles in the shot; it had to look clean. We were shooting in the winters, and both I and Saif got sick. But whenever we would see the underwater shots, he would always say, ‘How the F do you look so hot underwater?’ I didn’t realise that I was having that effect on men until Saif and Kunal Kohli pointed it out.”
Directed by Kunal Kohli, Thodha Pyaar Thodha Magic featured Saif, Rani Mukherjee, Rishi Kapoor, Ameesha, Sharat Saxena, Mahesh Thakur, and Akshat Chopra.
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