Rajpal Yadav’s mother got scared when he was slapped on screen, refused to watch the show: ‘She was terrified’

Talking about the incident he said, “This was the time when I was yet to make my debut in films. I was two years old in Mumbai and the show was broadcasted on DD1. Since that was the only channel at the time, people in my village gathered to see me on the show. In one of the scenes, I was dreaming about the last scene between Shah Rukh Khan and Amrish Puri in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, where SRK gets beaten up. Since I was enacting SRK in my dream, I was slapped multiple times by my boss Mr Sethi. My mother was terrified seeing me get beaten up on scene and she walked off. Later, I had to explain to her that it was just acting and these are all trained actors.”

He added, “My parents have absolutely no connection with cinema. They don’t know the techniques we use behind the camera. I had to explain to them that people often ask writers to add scenes where I get slapped to make the audience laugh, making the film a hit. This is how I had to convince them. My parents still don’t exactly know what I do.”

Mungeri Ke Bhai Naurangilal was a sequel to a similar television program on Doordarshan called Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne, which saw Raghubir Yadav in the lead role. Both the shows were directed by Prakash Jha.

On the work front, Rajpal Yadav was last seen in Sanya Malhotra’s Kathal, which premiered on Netflix. He played a pivotal role in 2022’s massive hit Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, which featured Kartik Aaryan in the lead role. Rajpal will again share the scene with Kartik in their upcoming film Satyaprem Ki Katha. He is also a part of Aayushman Khurrana’s Dream Girl 2.