Madhuri Dixit wouldn’t stop crying, refused to do Prem Pratigya scene as she’d have to share the screen with Ranjeet

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Recalling his experience on Prem Pratigya, he said, “Madhuri Dixit almost refused the film Prem Pratigya. She started crying in the makeup room, absolutely refusing to do the scene. I had no idea what was happening, I would come to set for two hours. She was playing a poor man’s daughter, and I was supposed to molest her. The fight master Veeru Devgan said that they’d keep rolling non-stop, and capture everything. Nobody bothered about me when the scene was done. Normally someone would ask me how it went. But this time, everybody surrounded Madhuri. She said that she never even realised that I’d touched her, which was a great compliment. I respect all women, whether I know them or not.”

Opening up about the scenes he became synonymous with, Ranjeet said, “These scenes are closely choreographed, like dance sequences. It’s not like we’ve studied real-life rapes to perform them on screen. I used to often instruct my co-stars to pull my hair and scratch my face, in order to make the scene better. They used to be comfortable.”