MUMBAI MIRROR (August 20, 2019)

This week, Karisma Kapoor returned to Zee TV’s Dance India Dance: Battle of the Champions to fill in for sister Kareena Kapoor—who is busy shooting for Angrezi Medium in London with Irrfan Khan—and was mighty impressed by Soul Queen. The all-girl group performed on her nineties chartbuster, “Jhanjariya”, from the Suniel Shetty co-starrer Krishna.

While it took her back to the 1990s, Karisma told the audience about the song, which was shot in two versions. “For the male version, we shot in the desert in 50-degree heat with sand flying into our eyes. The female version was shot in Mumbai in three days and I changed 30 outfits. Every look was different, and the steps were tough. It was an iconic song in that sense.”

It was an Andaz Apna Apna special episode and Shakti Kapoor, who had played Crime Master Gogo in the cult comedy, was a special guest. Host Karan Wahi shook a leg to one of his favourite songs from the film, “Yeh Raat Aur Yeh Doori” with Karisma, who had played one of the protagonists alongside Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Raveena Tandon in the film.