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Kajol was just 16 when she made her debut in the movies With cookies, which also starred Kamal Sadanahand in a recent interview, the actor recalled crying profusely after she had to perform a scene where her character was supposed to slap Kamal’s character. Kajol recalled how she couldn’t get herself to slap her co-star because for her, he had not done anything to deserve that slap. After she somehow got herself to perform that scene, she cried and apologised to him profusely. She compared performing in front of people to therapy, and said that it opens one’s emotional barriers.
In a chat with Brut India, Kajol said that when she was asked to slap Kamal, she wasn’t prepared for it. “To slap someone completely blameless in front of you for a scene was beyond me. I could not understand it. It was just not working. I just could not slap him. I just couldn’t raise my hand,” she shared and added, “It went beyond my morality, my ethics, my conscience. I liked Kamal. He was so sweet and so nice to me. A perfect gentleman. He was lovely to work with. Why would I slap him? It was so alien to me then.”
Kajol said that she would just lightly tap him on the face and back off. Her director, Rahuk Rawail, then said something that really got her angry, and she used that anger in her scene. “My director said I think you want to slap him. I think you are punishing him and that’s why you keep on doing this retake again and again. You want to do it. You are punishing him for something,” she recalled and shared that this got her angry towards her director.
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“And after that I was like, ‘now, you watch’. Then there was one perfect take. But after that I cried, I howled. I have apologised to Kamal. I said I am sorry because it affected me on a deep level that I have done something completely unfair with someone who totally didn’t deserve it and it was just so wrong,” she said. Kajol said that every time an actor does an “emotional scene, it opens up barriers, it opens up filters, it opens up all these preconceived notions.”
Kajol, in the same conversation, said that if given a chance, everyone must act once in their life. “Everyone must stand in front of a camera and in front of 30 people and laugh and cry and say weird things and dance, and it somewhere down the line, shows you exactly how less people care about all of it. It really doesn’t matter in the end,” she said and added, “It is how you look at yourself that always matters the most. It is not how the world sees you.”
Kajol will next be seen in The Trial Season 2.
