Actor Ranjeet, best known for playing villainous characters in films, said that Madhuri Dixit nearly refused to do the movie Prem Pratigya because she didn’t want share screen space with him. In an interview, Ranjeet said that he was unaware of the issues, but discovered what was happened from action director Veeru Devgan, the father of actor Ajay Devgn.
Speaking to Radio Nasha, Ranjeet said that his image preceded him in those days, making it impossible for him to get married. Ranjeet, whose characters frequently molested women on screen, said that after a point, playing the same sort of person became repetitive. “It was the same thing over and over again, grab sarees, pull hair, get beaten up in the end,” he said.
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Recalling his experience on Prem Pratigya, he said, “Madhuri Dixit almost refused the film Prem Pratigya. She started crying in the makeup room, absolutely refusing to do the scene. I had no idea what was happening, I would come to set for two hours. She was playing a poor man’s daughter, and I was supposed to molest her. The fight master Veeru Devgan said that they’d keep rolling non-stop, and capture everything. Nobody bothered about me when the scene was done. Normally someone would ask me how it went. But this time, everybody surrounded Madhuri. She said that she never even realised that I’d touched her, which was a great compliment. I respect all women, whether I know them or not.”
Opening up about the scenes he became synonymous with, Ranjeet said, “These scenes are closely choreographed, like dance sequences. It’s not like we’ve studied real-life rapes to perform them on screen. I used to often instruct my co-stars to pull my hair and scratch my face, in order to make the scene better. They used to be comfortable.”
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Madhuri Dixit wouldn’t stop crying, refused to do Prem Pratigya scene as she’d have to share the screen with Ranjeet – The Indian Express
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