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When Vidhu Vinod Chopra Bit Manoj Bajpayee’s Wife Shabana Raza’s Hand

Manoj Bajpayee’s wife Shabana Raza is more popularly known as Neha Bajpai, which is stage name. An actress who made her film debut with Bobby Deol in Kareeb in 1998, she stopped working in films after 2009. 

Recently during an interview, her actor husband revealed the reason why she stopped doing films and did not pursue a career after 2009. 

“She didn’t quit films, she stopped getting work for some reason. Too many politics here and there. She is also an outsider and didn’t have any mentor,” he said. 

However, there’s more that he shared about her time in Bollywood. Recalling an absurd incident, Manoj Bajpayee shared how filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra bit her hand once. 

Sharing the incident, the Gangs Of Wasseypur actor revealed, “Because Shabana didn’t have any film training of that sort, in the song she was raising a different hand altogether. In the scene, she was supposed to raise her left hand, but she would end up raising her right hand…”

“So for her to raise the left hand without forgetting, Vidhu bit her there. Nobody can do this with me,” he stated. 

Manoj Bajpayee added that this action confused his wife, who was new to films at the time and didn’t know how the film industry worked. 

He added, “Because she was so new, she didn’t know if the action was appropriate. She thought this is the way how filmmakers behave. She must have thought they are all mad genuises, they are capable of doing anything they want.”

For the unversed, Shabana’s debut film Kareeb was directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

A few years after the film’s release, Bobby Deol had also spoken about this incident in an interview. 

Recalling how the filmmaker gave Shabana a tough time, he said, “He would constantly yell at her. For one scene, Neha had to come down the mountain and give me her left hand. But she kept getting confused. When she couldn’t get this right after repeated takes, Vidhu asked her to bite her right hand. She did but she still got it wrong in the next take. After 20 takes, Vidhu lost his cool. And you know what he did? He bit her right hand. I was too shocked to react.”

After Kareeb, Shabana had also starred in Fiza alongside Hrithik Roshan, in Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet alongside Ajay Devgn and in the Tamil film Alli Thandha Vaanam along with Prabhu Deva. Her last film was the 2009 film, Acid Factory.
 



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