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Ek duuje ke liya1/30/2024 ![]() He had already done the Tamil version of Ek Duuje Ke Liye with Balachander. On top of that Kamal was very close to Balachander. Rati was a raw newcomer.And she was expected to behave like a pupil at the Kamal Haasan School. You see Kamal Haasan was already a veteran actor of many acclaimed performances when he came to his Hindi debut. ![]() Kamal and Rati hated one another from the start.Pacing together the most notorious star war between onscreen lovers a source close to Ek Duuje Ke Liye tells me, “It was all to do with the ego. ![]() But then, they had shared something really special in the past. The pair were so much at odds that by the time the shooting was halfway through the poor director K Balachander was at his wit’s end.How to make Kamal Haasan and Rati Agnihotri look intensely in love when in truth they couldn’t stand one another?! In the past Dilip Kumar and Madhubala had stopped talking to one another when they did Mughal-e-Azam. Kamal Haasan and Rati Agnihotri were not on speaking terms when they shot for their Hindi debut Ek Duuje Ke Liye. I was lucky to have Balachanderji as the director of my first Hindi film.”Ģ. That’s how I managed.I couldn’t have done it without these three great artistes to guide me through Ek Duuje Ke Liye. Balachanderji would talk to me in Tamil, then English.Prasadji, Balachanderji and Kamalji would pull up a chair and explain the scenes to me. I was like a sponge, absorbing all that I was given. Balachanderji would come up to me, whisper comforting things in my ears, and I would do the scene. I knew none of the emotions that I had to express. But he never ever shouted at me.Not once.I was so young-just 16-and so raw. He had these really huge eyes which would look straight at you. I remember when I first came on the sets I was really scared of Balachanderji. All I knew was I had a great producer, director and co-star Kamal Haasan. So I had no idea what the film was all about. Balchanderji didn’t want me to get influenced by the earlier film. But I was not allowed to see Maro Charitra. My dad saw the original before saying yes to the remake. I remember how I got this role.My Dad was approached and we immediately agreed because the film was produced by the great L V Prasadji and directed by the stalwart K Balachanderji.Ek Duuje Ke Liye was a remake of Balachanderji’s Tamil film Maro Charitra. In an interview with me on K Balachander here is how Rati recalled the experience : “He didn’t only discover me for the Hindi cinema in Ek Duuje Ke Liye he guided me through the film. This blockbuster of a love story about a Punjabi girl in love with a Tamil guy introduced Kamal Haasan to Hindi cinema and Rati Agnihotri to cinema.
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