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The hall of fame of method dancing, if there ever was a list, will feature a “stoned” Zeenat Aman. The veteran actor has revealed she smoked real chillums while filming the song “Dum Maro Dum” from the film Hare Rama Hare Krishna, in which she played the role of a drug addict.
The 1971 musical drama was directed by actor Dev Anand and launched Zeenat Aman to stardom. In a recent Instagram post, the veteran revealed how the team shot the song in Kathmandu, when Dev Anand rounded up a “gaggle of hippies from the streets” to be featured in the RB Burman chartbuster, penned by Anand Bakshi.
Zeena Aman recalled that the hippy extras were delighted because they were not only getting to “pack their chillums with hashish” but were also getting free food, going to feature in a Bollywood movie and were “being paid to boot.”
“Now Dev Saab wanted authenticity in this sequence. My character, the drug addled Janice, had to really look stoned. And the easiest way to achieve this was to partake in the hippy offerings! So there I was, still in my teens, gamely taking long pulls from their chillum for take after take.
“By the time we wrapped the day’s work I was high as a kite! I was in no state to return to the hotel in that happy, dizzy and slightly gormless haze. So some of the team members packed me into a car and took me on a drive to a beautiful vantage point. There in the cold mountain air, I contemplated the Himalayas and slowly, peacefully came down from my high.”
The actor, however, recalled how her mother was “furious” when she learnt what had happened with Zeenat Aman and gave the senior crew members a “sharp tongue lashing for allowing her precious child to ‘do drugs’! Luckily, I was spared her wrath. Well, what can I say, it was the 70s, and I was something of a flower child,” she added.
The actor then revealed that she would now be doing a live musical show across Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur in October, where she would be sharing anecdotes and “grooving to the most memorable numbers from my films,” she added.
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