The first shot I gave for my debut film Barsaat didn't make the final cut-Bobby Deol
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As told to Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 18, 2019)
I made my debut in 1995 with Barsaat, and the first shot I gave for the film was when Shekhar Kapur was directing it. It was a huge, arena-like set, where fights happen. I had to walk down the stairs calmly, with a smile on my face. However, later Shekhar had to choose between Barsaat and Bandit Queen, so Rajkumar Santoshi came on board as a director and that first scene didn’t make the final cut.
Raj made Tina (fellow debutante Twinkle Khanna) and me do some workshops and perform on songs from Andaz Apna Apna to help us open up. He is an amazing writer; I loved the dialogue he wrote for us.
We shot for my introduction sequence on the last day of the shoot, when I broke my leg while riding a horse. We had travelled all the way to London to shoot that sequence. I was on crutches for more than a year-and-a-half after that. I shot for some of the Gupt songs with a broken leg.
For my first film as leading man, we were looking for the title Badal, but we didn’t get the rights. While making my debut, I wasn’t really thinking of my family’s legacy. I never thought of my father as a superstar, he was just pappa to me. And he never made me feel like I had to prove a point or be better than him. He just told me to be myself and work hard.
Technically, my first shot was for Dharam Veer (Manmohan Desai’s 1977 directorial featuring Bobby’s actor-father Dharmendra). One day, dad asked if I’d like to play his character as a child, I instantly agreed. The team got my outfit stitched on the day of the shoot. It was a 30-second role and I had one-line of dialogue, “Yeh baat hai baba, toh yeh lo”. I played a blacksmith’s son and had to use a huge hammer. When I tried to lift it, it was too heavy for me. So, someone on the set made a fake one. I even dubbed for the role myself. Dad was surprised, maybe he had expected me to be nervous.
On our way back home from the set, when I told him, “Pappa, shooting toh kar di par paise toh diye hi nai mujhe”. He smiled and gave me a bundle of Rs 10,000, asking me to give it to my grandmother and to request her to distribute it among all the staff in the house, which I did. It was one of the nicest moments. I also went for the golden jubilee ceremony of the film at a hotel opposite the domestic (Mumbai) airport. I was given a special trophy.
I made my debut in 1995 with Barsaat, and the first shot I gave for the film was when Shekhar Kapur was directing it. It was a huge, arena-like set, where fights happen. I had to walk down the stairs calmly, with a smile on my face. However, later Shekhar had to choose between Barsaat and Bandit Queen, so Rajkumar Santoshi came on board as a director and that first scene didn’t make the final cut.Raj made Tina (fellow debutante Twinkle Khanna) and me do some workshops and perform on songs from Andaz Apna Apna to help us open up. He is an amazing writer; I loved the dialogue he wrote for us.
We shot for my introduction sequence on the last day of the shoot, when I broke my leg while riding a horse. We had travelled all the way to London to shoot that sequence. I was on crutches for more than a year-and-a-half after that. I shot for some of the Gupt songs with a broken leg.
For my first film as leading man, we were looking for the title Badal, but we didn’t get the rights. While making my debut, I wasn’t really thinking of my family’s legacy. I never thought of my father as a superstar, he was just pappa to me. And he never made me feel like I had to prove a point or be better than him. He just told me to be myself and work hard.
Technically, my first shot was for Dharam Veer (Manmohan Desai’s 1977 directorial featuring Bobby’s actor-father Dharmendra). One day, dad asked if I’d like to play his character as a child, I instantly agreed. The team got my outfit stitched on the day of the shoot. It was a 30-second role and I had one-line of dialogue, “Yeh baat hai baba, toh yeh lo”. I played a blacksmith’s son and had to use a huge hammer. When I tried to lift it, it was too heavy for me. So, someone on the set made a fake one. I even dubbed for the role myself. Dad was surprised, maybe he had expected me to be nervous.On our way back home from the set, when I told him, “Pappa, shooting toh kar di par paise toh diye hi nai mujhe”. He smiled and gave me a bundle of Rs 10,000, asking me to give it to my grandmother and to request her to distribute it among all the staff in the house, which I did. It was one of the nicest moments. I also went for the golden jubilee ceremony of the film at a hotel opposite the domestic (Mumbai) airport. I was given a special trophy.
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