Celebrity photographer and Cheat India producer Atul Kasbekar is all praises for the veteran actress Shabana Azmi. He says that she is ridiculously good. The producer worked with the actress in Neeraj Bhanot’s biopic Neeraj which also had Sonam Kapoor in the lead role. The film was helmed by Ram Madhvani.
"The only person that Ram did not work with was Shabana Azmi. Because she is so ridiculously good! He kept pulling stunts on her, and finally she lost her calm and told Ram to do whatever he needed her to do instead," Kasbekar said in a statement.
"She is a work of art. I've never seen such a high level of nuance before. The famous speech at the end of 'Neerja' which is shot in a classic way had 7 retakes, and whoever was listening had tears streaming through their eyes," he added.
Kasbekar spoke about "Neerja" when he introduced "Miss Sloane" for the third edition of &Prive HD's &Prive Soiree, a regular on-ground engagement by the channel.
Talking about the process of filming "Neerja", he said: "So, Ram would tell Sonam to learn a Rajesh Khanna song, and she would ask him why so. He would just say, you'll know tomorrow."
"He would tell Jim Sarbh to go there, basically bully her and ask her to sing something. If you now see the movie after me telling you this, you will now understand the mastery of this," he added.
(With IANS Inputs)
