Shahid Kapoor recalls why Dil To Pagal Hai crew needed to take 15 retakes in ‘Le Gayi’: ‘It was my first job, I was nervous’

Shahid shared, “So, the problem was my hair. Everybody had to go up and then go down. And my hair would take one second longer to settle and go down. They would keep looking and say, ‘Arey, kaun hai ye jo late aa raha hai (Who’s this who’s coming down late)?’ And then finally, it was me.”

The actor also revealed that the film was his “first job” and he was extremely nervous about it. “It was my first job. I was a student before that. And I had just done three months of Shaimaks (Shiamak Davar’s dance class) and he has three levels, right? So you do beginners, elementary, intermediate, and then you qualify. I was a beginner, but he put me in the intermediate class the minute he saw me because he liked my dancing. And right after that, he took me straight to shooting and said, ‘Come on, now you’ve to do this.'”

Shahid then shared that this sudden “upgrade” made him nervous, and made him feel, “it’s not meant to”. He said, “I was not ready to be in that room. So yeah, that was that. It was because of my hair, there’s so much hair. My hair would just like, I would go up and my hair would jump up and then it would take time to settle in. It was crazy.”

Shahid had earlier also shared how Karisma Kapoor was annoyed with him when she came to know that it was because of him that she had to give 15 retakes for the song. Talking to Filmfare, he had shared, “There was one guy who was slightly offbeat. I swear, with really big hair on his head, that’s me. I remember I won’t call her Karisma because at that time she was Karisma Kapoor, had to do fifteen retakes because of me.”

Shahid continued, “‘And, once she turned back and said Ye kaun hai? Kaun hai ye? (Who is this?)’ And, I was like hiding myself and saying ‘Main nahi hoon, main nahi hoon (it’s not me)’.”

Shahid was last seen in the action-thriller, Bloody Daddy. He’ll next be seen in a yet-to-be-titled romantic comedy, along with Kriti Sanon.

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