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This is an archive article published on October 26, 2024

Sonali Kulkarni recalls how Sanjay Dutt put her at ease during ‘bedroom scene’ in Mission Kashmir: ‘This doesn’t even have a peck, relax’

Sonali Kulkarni said the scene involved just a banter between the two, which ended with them hugging, but she was fretting before it was filmed.

Sonali Kulkarni talks about working with Sanjay Dutt.Sonali Kulkarni talks about working with Sanjay Dutt. (Photo: Dabboo Ratnani, Sonali Kulkarni//Instagram)

Actor Sonali Kulkarni has recalled an amusing anecdote while she was filming Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s drama thriller Mission Kashmir, stating how her co-star Sanjay Dutt helped her relax while she was shooting a sequence which the unit had dubbed as the “bedroom scene”.

Sonali, who was fairly new in the industry, recalled being a bundle of nerves when on the set the hairdresser casually asked her if she had “waxed” for the scene, leaving the young actor confused and scared.

“There was a scene which everyone called ‘bedroom scene’. It wasn’t needed to be named that all but that’s what people used to call it back then. The hairdresser, after my costume change, suddenly asked me, ‘You have waxed right?'” the actor recalled while talking to Siddharth Kannan. “I was shocked, nervous, said maybe, yes. I was wearing a gown, and I got so nervous! I took my position and I was just not able to concentrate. My lips were quivering, hands were trembling!”

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In the scene, Sanjay Dutt tells her, ‘Today, Altaf called me abba,’ and she responds, ‘He has called me ammi before.’ A banter follows between the two and the scene then dissolves with the two characters–playing husband and wife–hugging. “But for that, I was so nervous, I would fix my gown, stand, sit. Sanjay saw that and called me. He said, ‘Ismein na, pappi bhi nahi hai, bas do dialogue hai, aur hug karna hai (this scene doesn’t even have a peck, just two lines and then a hug). He continued, ‘I am nervous, now if even you get nervous like this, then the scene just won’t happen beta. So just relax. He is too cute!”

Post Mission Kashmir, which was headlined by Hrithik Roshan, the actor went on to work in Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai. She was last seen in this year’s Sobhita Dhulipala starrer Love, Sitara.

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