Mandira Bedi on working in DDLJ, ‘Shah Rukh Khan made me feel so comfortable; Kajol didn't take to me’

MUMBAI: Mandira Bedi recently reflected on the days she spent filming Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, as well as how choreographer Saroj Khan instructed her to sway her hips in her own unique way in the song 'Mehendi Laga Ke Rakhna'. Mandira hailed her work on Aditya Chopra's debut film as "fantastic." However, she described her first few days on set as "horrific" because she began with the song sequence.

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Speaking of her experience, Mandira said, “It was horrifying in the first four days, because the first four days was the song. I started with ‘Mehendi Laga Ke Rakhna…’ and trust me, I am telling you I am not unconfident in front of the camera, but the only thing I still have nightmares about is choreographed numbers, choreography.”

While shooting for the song Mehendi Laga Ke rakhna, Mandira revealed, “Saroj Khan, an absolute legend, and she’s telling me, ‘You are shaking your shoulders like Sunny Deol. You need to shake your hips, women shake hips’. I couldn’t shake (my) hips for love or for money. I can’t do this.”

She further added, “To start off, the song was very hard. It would be nice had we done a few scenes and I would have eased into it. But the first thing we did was to shoot the song, it was in Filmistan and that orange and purple thing that I wore, I had never worn something like that before or since. It was an interesting outfit, and I enjoyed it. I mean, I enjoyed it eventually, by the end I was sort of getting the hang of shaking my hips but I wish I had started with a scene.”

Finally, sharing her experience of working with the leads SRK and Kajol, Mandira said, “It was lovely shooting with Shah Rukh Khan, because he just made me feel so comfortable. He is such a natural, he is so kind. Even with my retakes with the song he was very accommodating and very nice. Kajol also, she didn’t take to me the first few days, but eventually she did, and we all got along really well. It was just a really nice experience, all told, in my 22 days. I look back at it with a lot of gratitude, it’s definitely one for the books.”

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