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Back in 2005, in an episode of Koffee with Karan, Bipasha Basu had openly acknowledged her feud with Kareena Kapoor Khan during the making of her debut film Ajnabee. Now, years later, actor Amita Nangia, who worked with both actresses in Ajnabee, has revealed the reason behind the tension between the two leading ladies. Apart from confirming their fight, she also disclosed that the dispute stemmed from a disagreement over costumes.
Speaking to Siddharth Kannan about Kareena and Bipasha’s feud, she said, “I think it was something related to their costumes. They both wanted the same designer.” When asked if the ongoing feud affected other cast members, she responded, “What could we say? We would hear about it on set and react to it. It was their debut.” While Bipasha made her debut with Ajnabee, it was fourth film of Kareena’s career.
During the interaction, Amita also described Kareena as reserved yet friendly. However, she mentioned that Bipasha was not particularly approachable and was solely focused on herself. She said, “I couldn’t relate to Kareena because she was very reserved, and her mother was always with her. We couldn’t bond with her. But we were friendly—we would sit together and talk.” She added, “Bipasha was very new and was completely focused on herself. She wasn’t very friendly.”
In 2005, Bipasha had spoken about her equation with Kareena. She shared on Koffee with Karan that while they were on talking terms during the first shooting schedule of Ajnabee, things changed by the second schedule when she realized Kareena didn’t like her. She said, “It was only in the second schedule that I realised that she does not like me. She stopped talking to me. It doesn’t make my life difficult, because when you know that somebody is very clear with their thoughts, that I don’t like you and I’m not going to talk to you, it’s actually better for me. Because I hate hypocrites. I would rather have a person who’s very straight in front of me, saying, ‘Listen, something’s not right with us, we’ll not talk’. But we worked professionally absolutely okay, when we had scenes together, there was no tantrum, there was no problems as such.”
Ajnabee also starred Akshay Kumar and Bobby Deol in lead roles. Following the film, Kareena and Bipasha were both cast in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara, but they didn’t share any scenes together in the movie.
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