Aditi Rao Hydari was seen as Bibbojaan in her very recent Netflix series Heeramandi. The series was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She recently revealed that she was kept hungry by the director of Heeramandi for a shot sequence.

Aditi was a part of her recently happened Round Table with a media source. Shalini Pandey, Ananya Panday, Bhumi Pednekar, and Tripti Dimri were also part of the conversation. All the young actresses sat along to discuss their journey so far in the industry.

Aditi was kept hungry by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

When Aditi was asked about how actresses could do such powerful scenes in the series and what helped them to do it so flawlessly. Aditi said, “For me, it was my two mujras. I have grown up dancing since I was a little girl, but mujra was a very different form of dancing. I had learnt Bharatnatyam, but this was Kathak and it was Kathak through the eyes of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is a perfectionist max and also knows a lot. And it was about getting it right and not disappointing him. That really gave me sleepless nights.”

She added, “The scenes where I had to give rousing speeches, Sanjay sir kept me hungry for a day because these scenes don’t come naturally and I did it very happily because it truly helped me… hangry help! I was really struggling with these scenes and he used to pull my leg that if I will ask her to give me a rousing scene, she will make it look like a shringaar scene. So he said, ‘don’t eat’. I was very happy and thanked him.”

Heeramandi: The Diamond Baazar is a 2024 Netflix series. The peridoic drama describes the lives of tawaifs in the red-light district of Heera Mandi in Lahore during the Indian independence movement against the British Empire. It also stars Sonakshi Sinha, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Fardeen Khan, Taha Shah Badussha, Shekhar Suman, and Adhyayan Suman.

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