Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan's co-star reveals 'Rekha got my scenes cut in our film, Rishi Kapoor was naked in a scene and...'

In a recent interview with Lehren, veteran actress Aruna Irani has spilled the beans on actors like Rekha and Rishi Kapoor. The actress revealed this about Rekha, “Because of the producers, the film took six years to be made. I had a very good role — it was the central character. Anybody would pray for a role like that. But due to several people, it had to be cut down. Rekha ji, for instance, she just wouldn’t allow it. She said, ‘No, Aruna’s role is too good’.”

The film she was referring to was Aurat Aurat Aurat. Irani added, “Rekha removed me from a film even though she was a good friend of mine. She still is. But when she took me out of a film called Mangalsutra, I asked the producer, ‘Why did you remove me even after giving me the signing amount?’ He said, ‘Rekha ji never wanted you in the film.’ When I asked Rekha why she did it, she said, ‘Aruna, if you pulled off the role too well emotionally, I’ll start looking like a vamp in the film.’ So she cut me off.”

On Rishi Kapoor being naked in a scene from Bobby

I had said no initially. He comes out nude and dries out his hair with a towel. He gave that shot. I told Raj ji that I can’t do it. He said, ‘Don’t look there na, don’t see wrong things, see right things’. I did it at last

She added, “I was then working with Chintu ji in Ravi Malhotra’s film. He said, ‘Aruna ji, mujhe aapse ek baat poochni hai. You objected a lot in that scene, but nanga toh mujhe hona tha, aap kyun object karahe the (Arunaji, I have to ask you something. I was the one who was naked in the shot, why were you objecting)?’”