Saira Banu shares priceless memories Working With Amitabh Bachchan And Vinod Khanna
Saira Banu shares priceless memories Working With Amitabh Bachchan And Vinod
Khanna
Saira Banu on Sunday walks down memory lane to reminisce her experience of working with veterans Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Kumar in the 1976 film Hera Pheri.
Amid recalling the times spent on the sets with her two exceptional co-stars, Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna, she wrote that it was a very happy and enjoyable time to have done “Hera Pheri” helmed by veteran filmmaker Prakash Mehra.
In the film, Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna played crafty tricksters while she played a cunning female swindler.
Director Prakash Mehra let the three of the actors have a free hand at all the outrageously funny scenes. She had already done a lot of work with Vinod in films such as “Purab Aur Paschim”, “Aarop”, and “Nehle Pe Dehla” and with Amitabh in “Zameer”.”
The actress continued, they had a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere and the three of them would work at suggestions and improvisations to make the scenes riotously funny especially in the scenes where Vinod is constantly trying to tone down Amitabh from being overly romantic to the heroine. Saira’s own favourite scene is where she is rattling off in Marathi and Vinod is trying to curb Amitabh’s zealous attempts to sit next to her.
The veteran actress also shared her experience of working with Feroz Khan for the first time. She found him well-mannered and soft-spoken. The first shoot of “Aadmi Aur Insaan” featured an ensemble of us all in a glamorous song number, where Mumtaz is singing “Zindagi Ittefaq Hai” seductively twirling around the heroes and herself
In an earlier post, Saira Banu talked on how Dilip Kumar was super organised “but like all other important and terribly occupied husbands, he never remembered special days like birthdays or anniversaries.”
Saira also shared a few throwback photographs and a priceless video from her birthday album on Instagram.
Dilip Kumar died in 2021 after a prolonged illness at the age of 98.
News Edit K.V.Raman
