Kajol was ‘crying, apologising’ after she slapped her first co-star: ‘My director said you are punishing him’

Kajol said that she would just lightly tap him on the face and back off. Her director, Rahuk Rawail, then said something that really got her angry, and she used that anger in her scene. “My director said I think you want to slap him. I think you are punishing him and that’s why you keep on doing this retake again and again. You want to do it. You are punishing him for something,” she recalled and shared that this got her angry towards her director.

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“And after that I was like, ‘now, you watch’. Then there was one perfect take. But after that I cried, I howled. I have apologised to Kamal. I said I am sorry because it affected me on a deep level that I have done something completely unfair with someone who totally didn’t deserve it and it was just so wrong,” she said. Kajol said that every time an actor does an “emotional scene, it opens up barriers, it opens up filters, it opens up all these preconceived notions.”

Kajol, in the same conversation, said that if given a chance, everyone must act once in their life. “Everyone must stand in front of a camera and in front of 30 people and laugh and cry and say weird things and dance, and it somewhere down the line, shows you exactly how less people care about all of it. It really doesn’t matter in the end,” she said and added, “It is how you look at yourself that always matters the most. It is not how the world sees you.”

Kajol will next be seen in The Trial Season 2.