Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who recently directed the movie 12th Fail, has been making films since the 1970s. After creating critically acclaimed movies like Parinda and 1942: A Love Story, he made the 1998 film Kareeb with Bobby Deol and newcomer Neha (now known as Shabana Raza). But, the experience during the making the film wasn’t pleasant for the actors. In fact, there was a time when Vinod got really angry with Shabana and even bit her hand. Bobby remembered this incident in a 2001 interview with Filmfare, saying he was “too shocked to react” when it happened.
Bobby also mentioned that Vinod found Shabana in Delhi and said she was “raw” because it was her first big movie. He also said that Vinod gave her a hard time by constantly shouting at her. “There is a certain vulnerability about her. Kareeb was my third film and I was just beginning to feel settled. Neha was raw. And Vinod gave her a tough time. He’d yell at her constantly,” he revealed. He added that he had a privilege. “No one pulled me up, maybe because my father’s famous,” he said.
He then recalled how Vinod actually bit Shabana’s hand during a scene so she would remember which hand to extend for a particular scene and how it left him shocked. “For one scene, Neha had to come down the mountain and give me her left hand. But she kept getting confused. When she couldn’t get this right after repeated takes, Vidhu asked her to bite her right hand. She did but she still got it wrong in the next take. After 20 takes, Vidhu lost his cool. And you know what he did? He bit her right hand. I was too shocked to react,” he recalled.
Bobby said that a shocked Shabana was “shivering.” He said, “Poor thing, she was shivering with fright. But even in the okay take, she puts out her right hand.”
Bobby was last seen in Animal. Shabana, has quit acting, and is now married to actor Manoj Bajpayee.
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