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Bollywood actor Jimmy Shergill, who is currently seen in Ranneeti: Balakot & Beyond, opened up about the hit film Mohabbatein. The actor took a trip down the memory lane and recalled his first meeting with Amitabh Bachchan. The actor recalled a moment at Yash Chopra’s house when he had an injured hand. Amitabh remarked that he’s quite the method actor and was referring to the scenes in the film.
In a conversation with Sushant Sinha, Jimmy said, “I was the last person who was locked in for Mohabbatein. These guys were training for six months, Uday (Uday Chopra), Jugal (Jugal Hansraj) and all the three girls. They were not able to finalise that one boy and maybe the role was written in my destiny. When the role came to me, I was six months behind these people. And then for the next three months the training went on.”
He continued, “When everything was finalised, a havan was organised at Yash uncle’s house. I remember that I had fallen somewhere and my hand was injured and I had 55 stitches. I was under pressure that now I will not be able to do any training. Adi (filmmaker Aditya Chopra) introduced me to Amitabh Bachchan and said ‘he is playing Karan.’ He looked at me and said ‘you are doing amazing method acting. Abhi se haath katwane lag gaye.’ For a second I couldn’t understand what was happening.”
Jimmy then said that Amitabh was actually referring to the scenes in the film where his character Karan would often hurt his hand to get it bandaged by Preeti’s character. He praised Amitabh’s sense of humour and said ‘it came without even thinking for a flash of a second.’
Mohabbatein also starred Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Shamita Shetty among others. The film was released in 2000.
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