Madhuri Dixit had two popular pairings with male actors in the 1990s — Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff, who were also her co-stars in Subhash Ghai’s Ram Lakhan and Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Parinda in 1989. Along with their onscreen chemistry, Madhuri also attributes the popularity of their pairings to their punctuality.
Story continues below this ad
“Thank god I worked with people who were always on time. They were Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff. With me, it never happened,” said Madhuri in an interview with Mid-Day, in response to a question on how it was working with stars like Govinda, who showed up “notoriously late” on set.
Madhuri starred opposite Anil in her breakthrough film, N Chandra’s Tezaab (1988), along with Rakesh Roshan’s Kishen Kanhaiya (1990) and Khel (1992), Indra Kumar’s Beta (1992) and Total Dhamaal (2021), and Rajkumar Santoshi’s Pukar (2000). Similarly, she starred alongside Jackie in Rajiv Rai’s Tridev (1989), Subhash Ghai’s Khal Nayak (1993), and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas (2002) among others.Story continues below this ad
With Govinda, Madhuri had done only a handful of films — Paap Ka Ant (1989), Izzatdaar (1990), and Mukul Anand’s Maha-Sangram (1990). Their most popular turn, however, was the song “Makhna” in David Dhawan’s 1998 hit buddy comedy Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, in which they shook a leg alongside Amitabh Bachchan.
Recently, in a conversation with Mukesh Khanna on the latter’s YouTube channel Bhishm International, Govinda defended the perception that he was always late on set. “I never used to arrive on time on set. I was a follower of Dilip Kumar sahab. I didn’t believe in late and all. I used to first set my rhythms right. Jab tak mere sur taal nahi set ho jaaye, main set pe nahi pahuchta tha (Till the time my rhythms wouldn’t be set, I would not go to the set),” said Govinda.
Story continues below this ad
The actor also recalled an interaction with the late legendary actor Dilip Kumar on the sets of their film Izzatdaar. “I would have 40-49 films on the floor. I would travel from one set to another. Main anpadh aadmi in film logon ke haath mein lag gaya, agar Dilip Kumar sahab nahi milte mujhe toh ye log mar dete mujhe (I, an uneducated person, got caught by these film people, and if I wouldn’t have met Dilip Kumar, these people would have killed me by making me overwork). He made me refuse like 25 films. I told Dilip Kumar sahab, ‘I will have to return this money.’ He told me, “I will lend it to you but quit these films,’” revealed Govinda.
On a recent edition of SCREEN Spotlight, Govinda’s former co-star Rakesh Bedi also remarked that working with Ranveer Singh in Dhurandhar reminded him of working with the Govinda of early days. “Govinda took up too much of films at one point of time, and got into other tracks which seemed unprofessional to others, like not honouring his time commitment. Initially, in the first five to seven years of his career, he was fantastic,” said Bedi.
[ad_2]
Source link
