New Delhi:
In the 70s, well-known artists of Hindi films who have often won the hearts of the audience by playing the role of Aam Aadmi in their films. We are talking about Amol Palekar, people used to call him a middle class hero. At that time he was like a superstar. The stories of Amol Palekar’s pictures were focused on the stories related to the middle class family apart from most of the films of that time. Amol Palekar used to kill his films and acting. He narrated an anecdote during the conversation in an interview where he had to slap his own co-star Smita Patil to get the real expressions out, but Smita Patil had to do so without telling it. So let’s know that he did acting and explained to his co-star.

What did Amol Palekar tell?

While narrating the story of his film role during the interview with Lalantop, he told me that Shyam Benegal told me that I have to slap Smita Patil without telling. So I said, ‘No, I can’t do this.’ I refused to do anything that has not been rehearsed in advance. Because your co-star should know what you are going to do. According to me, it is wrong to do anything without their knowledge and hence I do not do so. ‘How can I raise my hand on a woman?’ Shyam got very upset. He said, ‘This is an order’. I was completely broken. But he accepted him and started doing scenes. He further explained that, “The shot started and Smita started acting and at one time, I grabbed her hand and slapped her.”

Smita was stunned by slap

Without telling, the slap came to a natural expression from Smita, which was captured by the camera. Palekar further stated that, “The way Smita’s gestures changed, they could not believe that she had slapped her. She was completely calm and feeling angry with a lot of humiliation. Meanwhile, the camera was continuously running. She did not cut. All her natural expressions were captured in the camera. But I was not only forgotten and I was not able to understand everything. How to react

Both were crying as soon as the scene is cut

He told that, as soon as the scene was over, he immediately ran to Smita to apologize. He said that, when Shyam Benegal said ‘Cut’ I reached Smita and immediately hugged her. I apologized to him and I said, ‘I am very sad Smita.’ And we both wept. We both cried a lot.

When was the film role released?

The film role was released in 1997, directed by Shyam Benegal. In this film, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri and Sulabha Deshpande were also seen playing important roles.