Couldn’t play second lead: Raveena Tandon

Raveena Tandon was one of many high actors of the Nineties. Already a well known title within the business, the success of her 1994 movie ‘Mohra’ marked a significant turning level in her profession, firmly establishing her as one of the sought-after main actresses in Hindi cinema. It was round this part that filmmaker Karan Johar supplied her a task in his debut directorial ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’. Nonetheless, Raveena selected to show it down because it was a second lead.

In a latest interplay with ‘Zoom’, Raveena defined why she rejected Karan Johar’s first movie regardless of being good associates with the filmmaker-producer. She stated, “I had my causes to reject sure movies. For instance, in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, Karan all the time says, ‘You didn’t do my first movie’, however I inform him, ‘I’d have cherished to do it and you’re my pal’. Sadly, throughout that point in my profession, I couldn’t have restarted my profession by taking part in second lead after leaving at some extent, which was ‘Mohra’.”

“It was very needed for me to begin off, even when I’ve 5 scenes and 5 songs, however as a solo heroine. I needed to restart my profession like that, which was very tough, however I used to be like, ‘It’s a must to do that’. It labored for Rani Mukerji as a result of she was a younger and contemporary face, however for me, it was not attempting to begin off from the place I left off; that was a extremely tough resolution for me,” she added.

Raveena additionally revealed that she refused to star within the iconic track ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’ from Mani Ratnam’s 1998 movie ‘Dil Se’ as she didn’t wish to be branded an ‘merchandise lady’. She stated, “‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’ got here and I used to be dying to do it, however I didn’t wish to be branded ‘merchandise lady’. So, I keep in mind telling Mani Ratnam Ji, ‘I’m dying to do a movie with you. I wish to be in each movie of yours, however sadly, I can’t do that track’. These are the regrets that you just do have, however then you’ll be able to’t do every thing in life.”