Zeenat Aman reveals she got ‘stoned’ for real during Dev Anand’s Dum Maro Dum song, was in no state to return to hotel: ‘My mom was furious’

Zeena Aman recalled that the hippy extras were delighted because they were not only getting to “pack their chillums with hashish” but were also getting free food, going to feature in a Bollywood movie and were “being paid to boot.”

“Now Dev Saab wanted authenticity in this sequence. My character, the drug addled Janice, had to really look stoned. And the easiest way to achieve this was to partake in the hippy offerings! So there I was, still in my teens, gamely taking long pulls from their chillum for take after take.

“By the time we wrapped the day’s work I was high as a kite! I was in no state to return to the hotel in that happy, dizzy and slightly gormless haze. So some of the team members packed me into a car and took me on a drive to a beautiful vantage point. There in the cold mountain air, I contemplated the Himalayas and slowly, peacefully came down from my high.”

 

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The actor, however, recalled how her mother was “furious” when she learnt what had happened with Zeenat Aman and gave the senior crew members a “sharp tongue lashing for allowing her precious child to ‘do drugs’! Luckily, I was spared her wrath. Well, what can I say, it was the 70s, and I was something of a flower child,” she added.

The actor then revealed that she would now be doing a live musical show across Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur in October, where she would be sharing anecdotes and “grooving to the most memorable numbers from my films,” she added.