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In the 1980s, when Hindi cinema was witnessing disruption and several changes due to the arrival of VCR, menace of film and music piracy, Zeenat Aman–one of the most popular actress of that time–starred in a film titled Daku Hasina. It was at the time of this 1987 film shoot that Zeenat Aman got pregnant. In her latest Instagram post, the actress opened up about shooting risky scenes while being pregnant and how her film, despite being a flop, was true mood of the time. A time when the feminist storm was sweeping through India.
On Friday, the actress shared a set of photos on her Instagram handle. One of them showed the actress posing with a gun, while the other two pictures were of the colourful posters of the film featuring Rajinikanth and Rakesh Roshan along with Zeenat Aman. This was one of Zeenat’s last films before she went on take a long hiatus from acting.
Sharing the vintage pictures, Zeenat wrote, “This was one of the last films I did before my extended hiatus. I became pregnant early on in the shoot, and by the end of filming was well into my third trimester! My svelte figure had naturally ballooned, so to hide my belly the crew came up with various creative shots.”
She added, “Some of these involved me riding a horse, which brought its own concerns. I had had a scare on horseback during a previous shoot, when the poor animal had bolted because of the artificial rain and blaring speakers on set. I wasn’t nervous about my own safety, but the safety of the child in my womb was of utmost importance. Luckily, we were able to shoot these scenes without any incident.”
In the post, the actress also revealed how her husband Mazhar was also part of the film. She wrote, “One’s memory is such a slippery thing. While looking up clips from the film, I found that Mazhar, the father of my children, also had a special appearance in it. He’s there in the qawwali number, which I had clean forgotten!”
According to the veteran star, Daku Hasina was quite true to the mood of the time in 1987.
She wrote, “Legal reforms and social awareness on gender were the talk of town, thanks to the exceptional women activists of the time. There was a certain air of liberation, not to mention indignation at the horrors of the patriarchy, and it felt oh so good to play an ass-kicking role!”
The film, directed by Ashok Rao, and produced by Rajiv Kaul failed to impress the moviegoers with no reference to the money that went behind its making or it collected at the box office.
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