In May 2024, Bollywood Hungama exclusively spoke with Mita Vashisht about her film The Shameless‘ selection at the Cannes Film Festival. In the same interview, she also spoke about her experience of working on Dil Se (1998), which incidentally completed 27 years on August 21.
27 Years of Dil Se EXCLUSIVE: Mita Vasisht reveals that Shah Rukh Khan saved her life: “I was about to fall in deep gorge, but he grabbed me…he’s an ANGEL in disguise”; also reveals she injured him during a SENSUOUS fight scene: “He told me, “I have broken every bone in my body; this is nothing!”
Dil Se starred Shah Rukh Khan, who was also seen in her 1991 mini–TV series, Ahmaq. Incidentally, both are born on November 2. On this, Mita Vashisht said, “Yes, we share our birthday, and we also shared a lot of good times off set and also on screen. He’s also a wonderful human being and very caring for his co-actors. At that time of Ahmaq, he was already being talked about; during Dil Se, he had become a big star. In this film, there was a fight sequence between Shah Rukh and me, which was chopped off. He tracks me down while rehearsing for the attack on Republic Day parade, as he wants to track down Manisha Koirala’s character. I give him a slip, but he manages to catch hold of me. This is when we have a massive fight and finally, I hit him on the head with a stone.”
Mita Vashisht continued, “It was a lovely fight sequence. Director Mani Ratnam told me, ‘You should fight it like a tigress’! He wanted it to be sensuous; our bodies don’t leave each other during the fight sequence. Our legs were twined around each other’s waist. This is when he realized that she was a trained killer. It was a six-minute continuous hand-held scene.”
Mita Vashisht spoke highly of the superstar, “Shah Rukh was very protective; he had done a lot of fight sequences. I hadn’t. He made sure that I did not bang my head anywhere. At one point, the stone slipped through my hand and hit him on the head. Hence, he got a slight cut; there was a little bleeding. The unit members were like ‘What have you done?’. Any other person would have made a big fuss. But he kept his cool. He told unit members, ‘No, it’s fine. Just get some ice. Mita, nothing to worry about. I have broken every bone in my body while doing fight sequences. This is nothing’!”
She then revealed, “Then there was a scene where he’s being taken blindfolded to the camp. Mani Ratnam wanted me to move backwards. I was wearing plastic-heeled shoes, with which you can’t feel the ground. And we were shooting in Darjeeling, where there was a lot of ice. I was also carrying a heavy AK-47. Shah Rukh was in front of me. Suddenly, I found myself falling into a deep gorge. I would have surely broken my neck. Thankfully, Shah Rukh grabbed me by the collar and yanked me back up. His reflexes were so strong. He just said, ‘Are you fine? Okay. Chalo, shot ready’. Utne mein woh moment nikal gaya. Later on, I thought, ‘Oh my god. What if he had not saved me? I could have got badly injured or killed’. Hence, he was truly an angel in disguise.”
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