For past few year very drastic changes comes to the cinema industry but this is not new to this industry. Thirty four years after Rishi Kapoor dropped his towel to expose his bare behind to the camera in Raj Kapoor s Bobby to an embarrassed Aroona Irani in his debut as the male lead, his son Ranbir has done the same without any inhibitions in Sanjay Leela Bhansali s Saawariya, it seem quite interesting.
First time in a mainstream of Hindi film the hero has done a nude shot, Shocked!!. Yes, This unexpected occurs during the course of a song Jab Se Tere Naina shot with the debutant hero waltzing around in a towel.
Ask why Ranbir feels no awkwardness about the shot?? “It s a song where a guy is celebrating love when he comes out of a bath… so many of us have danced in a towel in our bedrooms. What s the big deal if it slips off? I did exactly what the character was required to do. If my father could do it for his father in the conservative 1970s why can t I do the same in this day and age when everything is out in the open? And that too for a film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali who according to me and my family, is the true inheritor of Raj Kapoor s legacy.”
Interestingly Ranbir s mom Neetu Singh finds her son s very cute in towel. Here the question arise, would the censor board will allow the shot ?
“I don t see why not? There was one in Bobby so many years ago. Besides it s so aesthetically done,” reasons Ranbir. He is the only other actor to have done a nude shot is Rahul Bose. as you know eight years ago Rahul dropped his trousers for a full-length back shot with model Laila Rouass in Dev Benegal s Split Wide Open.
“Why not ?” shoots back Rahul. “When you submit to a character you submit completely. In one of my earliest films Bom-gay I played a homosexual who steals his guilty pleasures wherever he can. I had to be shown making love in a passive position. When you are in character you drop everything you have to, including your pants.”
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