Manoj Bajpayee confirms Vidhu Vinod Chopra bit his wife Shabana Raza’s hand: ‘Nobody can do this with me’

In the same interview, Manoj Bajpayee also recalled the time when filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra bit her hand. He said, “Because Shabana didn’t have any film training of that sort, in the song she was raising a different hand altogether. In the scene, she was supposed to raise her left hand, but she would end up raising her right hand… so for her to raise the left hand without forgetting, Vidhu bit her there. Nobody can do this with me.”

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He added, “Because she was so new, she didn’t know if the action was appropriate. She thought this is the way how filmmakers behave. She must have thought they are all mad genuises, they are capable of doing anything they want.”

Shabana’s debut film, Kareeb, was with Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film, however, didn’t work at the box office.

In a 2001 interview with Filmfare, Bobby Deol recalled the incident and said Vidhu Vinod Chopra who “discovered” Shabana in Delhi gave her a tough time. “He would constantly yell at her.” He shared, “For one scene, Neha had to come down the mountain and give me her left hand. But she kept getting confused. When she couldn’t get this right after repeated takes, Vidhu asked her to bite her right hand. She did but she still got it wrong in the next take. After 20 takes, Vidhu lost his cool. And you know what he did? He bit her right hand. I was too shocked to react.”