Actor Rajpal Yadav got a three-line role in the film Shool along with many of his fellow National School of Drama graduates. Although he was unknown in the world of films at that time, he had already done the television show ‘Mungeri Ke Bhai Naurangilal’. He had no idea that the show was popular in the interiors of North India and that an unexpected incident on the sets of Shool would change the crew’s attitude towards him.
In a conversation with Ashok Pandit on his YouTube channel, Rajpal recalled that he got the small role in Shool when Anurag Kashyap told him and other NSD graduates including Nawazuddin Siddiqui that Ram Gopal Varma would make the film for him as a producer. Have been. Assistant e residence. Rajpal was given the role of a coolie and left to shoot the film in Bihar. “The director said to me very seriously, ‘Speak properly in front of Manoj Bajpayee.’ And I’m thinking, ‘But I know him’.”
Rajpal further said, ‘We were seen in Motihari, but the entire team was from Hyderabad. About six or seven of us were put into a Mahindra-type vehicle, and as I got out, I heard people shouting, ‘Hey Naurangia is there too’. Thousands of people had gathered to watch the shooting. Manoj Bajpayee recently made ‘Akhiyon Se Goli Maare’ with Satya and Raveena Tandon. Even I was present there just to see him.
In a recent interview, actor Imran Khan recalled a similar experience. He said that even before the release of his first film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, he had started working on his next film Kidnap. They were not allowed to eat meat on set, and were made to sit on plastic stools in the heat. But when the trailer of Jaane Tu came, the crew’s attitude changed and they were served biryani in an air-conditioned room.
