‘Rekha was jealous, insecure about her height; entire crew laughed at her when she tried to take my role’: Moushumi Chatterjee recalls rivalry

Moushumi also claimed that Rekha’s attitude was occasionally dismissive: “She used to make faces while seeing me, as if she doesn’t care. And once, I approached her and asked, ‘How did you do that? Do it again, in front of me?’ She got nervous. I don’t know if she remembers this.” Recalling an incident on the set of Prem Bandhan, Moushumi shared how director Ramanand Sagar once asked her to remove her heels during a scene: “He said, ‘Woh height ka thoda… woh Rekha barefoot hai’ (It’s a bit about the height… Rekha is barefoot). I told him, ‘I’m a padhi-likhi rich woman. I’m born and brought up that way. Why are you asking me to take off my shoes? You manage, ask her to take a stool.’”

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Reflecting on her experiences during the shoot of Dassi, she revealed that Rekha was visibly frustrated with constantly being cast in secondary roles: “She got fed up playing the second woman. She insisted to Raj Khosla, ‘Give me the role of Dassi, I should be Sanjeev Kumar’s wife. Let her do this one.’ I remember all his assistants, Sagar and others, they were laughing. He was a little high when she made that request, so he just said, ‘Mereko poora story change karna padega’ (I’ll have to change the entire story).”

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