Karisma Kapoor recounts on the industry’s transformation in last 40-50 years
Karisma Kapoor recounts on the industry’s transformation in last 40-50 years
Karisma Kapoor, a judge on the dancing reality show ‘India’s Best Dancer Season 4`, recounts over the transformation that the film industry has seen in the last 40-50 years
Karisma Kapoor, who is acknowledged for films like Andaz Apna Apna’, Coolie No.1′, and Raja Hindustani’, among others, recently walked down the memory lane as she recalled how when she started out actors didn’t have a vanity van.
The first film in which she got to work on a monitor was Dil To Pagal Hai’. It was amidst the dance of envy shot. Yash Chopra, got it, and Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra were also on the sets and they went mad looking at the monitor.
They thought, ‘Really? They could see what they have done in a shot’,” recalled Karisma, who made her acting debut in 1991 at the age of 16 with ‘Prem Qaidi’ opposite debutant Harish Kumar.
She also spoke about the first sync-sound film that she worked on -‘Zubeidaa’.
She further recalled that she saw another landmark. The first film with sync-sound was Zubeidaa’ directed by Shyam Benegal. It was the first movie where we put on lapel mics for real life sound’,” she recalled.
The actress was referring to a major technological advancement in Hindi cinema when the industry moved on from studio dubbing of characters to the sync-sound where the dialogues were recorded live on the sets, which made the scene immersive besides adding more depth to the narrative.
She further added, that the number of vans that are parked outside the sets of this show… They didn’t have anything like this and had to go behind a tree to change our outfits for a scene, sometimes we went to the loo… So yeah, our industry has seen major changes in the last 40-50 years.”
The actress is seen as a judge alongside Terence Lewis and Geeta Kapoor in âIndia’s Best Dancer 4′.
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