Shabana Azmi cried after humiliation on ‘Parvarish’ set, wanted to quit Bollywood
Shabana Azmi reveals her traumatizing experience on the sets of 'Parvarish' in a recent interview, where she faced humiliation and almost quit the Hindi film industry. She was publicly humiliated by the choreographer, causing her to walk barefoot in tears towards her house.
In Short
- Shabana Azmi recalls feeling humiliated and wanting to quit the Hindi film industry while shooting for the film 'Parvarish'.
- The incident occurred during a dance number where Azmi was uncomfortable and asked to change some steps.
- The director, Manmohan Desai, later apologized to Azmi for the incident.
Shabana Azmi is an actress par excellence. She was recently seen in 'Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahaani’, where her performance has been lauded by all. Now, in a recent interview, she revealed how she had once decided to quit the Hindi film industry after facing humiliation on the sets of ‘Parvarish’. In fact, she had even started crying and had left the sets barefoot, in her costume from the film and walked towards her house.
SHABANA AZMI RECALLS HUMILIATION ON 'PARVARISH' SETS
During a podcast with Adi Pocha, Shabana Azmi remembered the time when she was shooting for ‘Parvarish’. The actress revealed an incident where she felt so humiliated that she wanted to quit the film industry altogether!
Shabana Azmi said, “I cannot dance to save my life. I have two left feet. I had asked Kamal Master, he was the choreographer. I said, ‘Please give me rehearsals.’ He said rehearsal is not needed. You just have to clap. I said okay. But when we went on the set, it was a full-fledged dance number with a gun in one hand and a gun in the other. It was so frightening because I was with Neetu Singh. Even before I could figure out whether I should put my right foot or left foot, Neetu would have done two rehearsals and sat over there.”
Out of nervousness, the actress then asked the choreographer if she could change a few steps. However, she did not expect what was coming. She recalled, “There were a lot of junior artists on the sets. He said, ‘Okay, lights off. Now Shabana Ji is now going to teach Kamal dance master what steps to do’. It was so humiliating and bad that I just ran off the set. I was in these ghastly clothes. I went out to find my car was not there so in those clothes I started walking barefoot to my house in Juhu, crying away and saying ‘I am not going to work in any Hindi film anymore. I just don’t want this humiliation.”
It was the director Manmohan Desai who later apologised to her. She added,“I said this is something I will never do again. That humiliation is something I come in touch with even today when I have to do a dance step which I am much more comfortable with now, but I get that tension. Horrible.”
ABOUT ‘PARVARISH’
‘Parvarish’ was released in 1977 and starred Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Shammi Kapoor and Vinod Khanna in pivotal roles. It was directed by Manmohan Desai.