Shabana Azmi recalls ‘crazy’ Shashi Kapoor after she refused to do intimate scenes, says, ‘How mean is he? Look at the way he’s speaking to me'

Azmi recalled that Shashi Kapoor started scolding her after she burst out crying because she did not want to do an intimate scene with him. (Image via X)

Veteran actress Shabana Azmi recently opened up about her experience of working with late actor Shashi Kapoor.

In an interview with Zoom, Azmi mentioned that she had been a fan of Shashi Kapoor since she was only 9 years old. She also recalled that the actor was ‘mean’ to her but actually ended up helping her. The actress called him ‘crazy’ when they were working together for ‘Fakira’.

Azmi recalled that Shashi Kapoor started scolding her after she burst out crying because she did not want to do an intimate scene with him.

“That was his way of showing affection. He was crazy. I will give you an example: We were shooting for Fakira, and the song was 'Dil Mein Tujhe Bithakar'. Now, I went on set before he arrived, and Satyanarayan ji was doing the choreography. I saw that the moves were very intimate. I was very young at that time, and I had tears in my eyes. I left the set, and my heart was thudding because I really didn’t want to do those shots,” she said.

“So I went in, and I told my hairdresser that I couldn’t do those shots, and I started crying. Suddenly there was a heavy knocking on the door, comes Shashi Kapoor, he was like, ‘What’s wrong with you’, so I said, ‘I can’t do those scenes’, he said, ‘Why, when you became an actress, didn’t you realise this when you told your mother you want to become an actress, stupid girl’, and he left. I looked at my hairdresser, and I said, ‘How mean is he? Look at the way he’s speaking to me.’ And then, after half an hour, I went on the set, and he had every move changed. This was the kind of person he was,” she added.

The actress further spoke about being a fan of Shashi since she was 9. She revealed that she used to save her pocket money and go buy a black and white picture of Kapoor every Sunday to get it signed by him.