Veteran actor Ranjeet has revealed some shocking details about the 1989 movie Prem Pratigya, which also starred Madhuri Dixit in the lead. In a recent interview, Ranjeet revealed that Madhuri cried on the sets and refused to do a molestation scene for the film. He shared that even though he was waiting for the actress, she did not turn up and nobody told him about what was happening.
“She (Madhuri) started crying and refused to do the scene. I was unaware of the situation… some art director had told me. There was a Bengali art director. Our director was Bapu, he was from South. I used to have fun on the sets, like when I would tell my co-stars, ‘darling thoda udhar muh karo mai change kar leta hu (face the other side, I’ll change)’. I was not even used to going to the makeup room. Very normal and all that I was accepted like that; otherwise, they would say I’m fake,” Ranjeet told news agency ANI.
Recalling what exactly happened on the sets, Ranjeet continued, “Then, what happened, there was a handcart. Madhuri’s father in the movie was poor and used to pull a handcart. The molestation scene was on the handcart. I was waiting for her but nobody told me what was happening. Ultimately, she agreed.”
The veteran actor further argued that such scenes are “a part of our job”. “Veeru Devgan was the fight master. He said that we will keep rolling the camera: ‘beech mein camera cut nahi hona chahiye (the scene shouldn’t be cut in between)’…Molestation is a part of our job. The villain is not bad. With every heroine, it was compulsory,” he added.
Prem Pratigya is a romantic film which was released in 1989. The film starred Mithun Chakraborty, Madhuri Dixit, Ranjeet, late Vinod Mehra and late Satish Kaushik.
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