Zarina Wahab is understood for her critically acclaimed roles in Chitchor and Gopal Krishna. The actor educated on the Movie and Tv Institute of India in Pune. It was at the moment that she met the legendary filmmaker Raj Kapoor, who invited her total batch to his farmhouse in Loni. Throughout their meet and greet session, Raj Kapoor made a ‘casteist’ comment about her, which took her abruptly.
In a current interview with Lehren Retro, she was requested concerning the story, and he or she clarified, “That is incorrect. Individuals have taken it utterly out of context. What actually occurred was, again then, every time Raj Kapoor used to go to his farm in Loni, he used to name individuals from the Pune institute (Movie and Tv Institute of India). All of us went, all dolled up. I don’t know what he was pondering, he checked out me and (made a casteist comment). I believed to myself, ‘I dressed up properly, why did he use that phrase for me?’ I felt dangerous however I didn’t react.”
She added, “Once I was leaving, he stopped me and requested, ‘Have you learnt why I used that phrase about you?’ I mentioned, ‘No, sir.’ He then clarified, ‘I known as you that phrase as a result of that’s what I name Waheeda Rehman’. That all of the sudden lifted my temper. What an incredible praise he gave me. He in contrast me to Waheeda Rehman. I used to be flattered.”
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Zarina then recalled doing one thing foolish. She mentioned, “I used to be so foolish. In spite of everything this, once I went to Mumbai. I met Waheeda ji and informed her, ‘I appear to be you’. She checked out me, and he or she was like possibly the jawline is like me. She was simply being form, we don’t have any similarities. God is aware of what Raj Kapoor noticed in me.”
Beforehand, talking about the identical incident, Zarina informed Amar Ujala, “Once I was learning at Pune Movie Institute, Raj Kapoor used to come back there typically to satisfy Shailendra Singh. Shailendra was attempting to grow to be an actor and through this time he had additionally sung the songs filmed on Rishi Kapoor in Raj Kapoor’s movie Bobby. Sure, in the future Raj Kapoor did say to me that you simply appear to be a sweeper, I requested him why are you saying so? So he mentioned that I name Zeenat Aman additionally by the identical identify. I see Zeenat Aman’s picture in you. This was an enormous praise from Raj Kapoor for me and folks twisted it and offered it as one thing else.”
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