Dalip Tahil reacts to rumours of Jaya Prada slapping him while shooting intimate scene: ‘Yeh kaunsi picture thi?

Elaborating about the reports, Dali Tahil further shared that he takes pride in having always stood up for women, and for female actors on the set. He said that there have been times when directors would tell him to go with the flow while filming an intimate scene. However, he would always ask the filmmaker to inform his co-stars about this. “I have always believed in creating a respectful space. I have always been arrogantly against all of it and even threatened to leave a film rather than crossing the line,” he added.

In the same interview, Dalip Tahil also opened up about his experience filming for his first-ever commercial movie scene and mentioned that it also featured Amitabh Bachchan. “We were shooting on Ambedkar Road in Bandra, and that was my first commercial film scene. The scene featured me, a member of the villain’s gang, getting a shave when Bachchan Saab comes and snatches my knife, holding it close to my throat to extract information,” Tahil recalled.

“While I was waiting on the set, I heard a voice from behind saying, ‘Hi, I am Mr Amitabh Bachchan.’ Immediately, I started feeling unwell. Due to my background in theatre, I thought I could handle the scene, but everything fell apart when I stood in front of him to shoot the actual scene. I began forgetting my lines,” he said. He added, “Observing this, Bachchan Saab came up to me and said, ‘Relax. Don’t worry. Take your time. Do whatever you need to do. Don’t think it’s me who is standing in front of you; just proceed with the scene as you wish.’ It took three-four takes, but he made me feel at ease.”

Dalip Tahil was last seen in Sailesh Kolanu’s action suspense-thriller HIT: The First Case (2022).