Raveena Tandon recalls being called ‘arrogant’ for refusing to wear swimming costumes or doing kissing scenes in a film; says she had conditions about rape scenes – Times of India

Raveena Tandon recently opened up about being reluctant about various things while shooting for a film. The actress also recalled being labelled as ‘arrogant’ for refusing to do certain things.
In an interview with ANI, Raveena said, “I used to be uncomfortable with a lot of things. For example, dance steps. If I was uncomfortable with something I would say listen. I am not comfortable with this step. I would not do the step. I didn’t want to wear swimming costumes, and I didn’t do kissing scenes. So I had my fundas. I was the only actress who had a couple of rape scenes with not even one tear in the dress. All my clothes used to be fully intracranial t’.

Elaborting further, she added, “Mera dress phatega nahi..tum karlo rape scene agar karna hai. So they used to call me arrogant. ‘Darr’ had come to me first, though it was not vulgar, but earlier there were some scenes in ‘Darr’, which I was not comfortable with. I never used to wear a swimming costume. I would say, ‘no, I will not wear a swimming costume’. Even ‘Prem Qaidi’, the first film with which I think Karisma Kapoor got launched, was actually offered to me first. But even in that, there was just one scene where the hero pulls down the zipper and the strap is showing, I was uncomfortable with that.”

Raveena made her Bollywood debut with ‘Patthar Ke Phool’ opposite Salman Khan. She went on to do films like, ‘Mohra’, ‘Andaz Apna Apna’, ‘Laadla’, ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’, ‘Dulhe Raja’ and others.

On the work front, she was last seen in ‘KGF: Chapter 2’ co-starring Yash and Sanjay Dutt. The film made record-breaking business at the box office. Next, she will be seen in Arbaaz Khan’s ‘Patna Shukla’. She also has ‘Ghudchadi’ with Sanjay Dutt.