When director Feroz Khan cut Zeenat Aman's pay for being an hour late on the sets of 'Qurbani'

Feroz Khan’s 1980 film ‘Qurbani,’ which was made under the actor’s own banner (FK International) included one of the greatest ensembles including Vinod Khanna to Zeenat Aman, Amjad Khan, Aruna Irani, Amrish Puri, and Kader Khan among others. The film is based on the 1972 Italian crime action movie ‘The Master Touch.’ Qurbani might have gone down in the books of cinema, but it still counted among the greatest films of all time. Zeenat Aman who played a prominent role in the film recently recalled how director Feroz Khan deducted her pay on the film set for being late.

Taking to her Instagram account, Zeenat penned a very long note along with a popular scene from the film. The veteran actress began by mentioning “rizz,” the Oxford word of 2023 as she went on to describe her director as “charismatic.”

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“I read somewhere that Oxford’s word for the year 2023 is “rizz” - short for ‘charisma’. Well, if I’ve ever known anybody to have rizz, it was Feroz Khan,” she wrote.

Zeenat Aman recalls an interesting incident from Qurbani sets

Recalling the time from the 1970s, Zeenat while noting that her career was on the rise when Feroz Khan approached her to offer a role in his future play. Mentioning that she refused the offer as it was for a secondary part, the veteran actress elaborated how the director got furious and led out a “stream of expletives” while she held the receiver away from her ear!

It was months after that he called again offering her the lead role in the film _Qurbani_ .

The actress further recalled the incident when she went out for a party and ended up an hour late to the set, making Feroz Khan very furious.

“Feroz was glowering behind his camera, and before I could offer him my meagre excuse, he cut me down to size. “Begum, you’re late and you’re going to pay for the delay.” No argument, no scolding, but you can be sure that he docked my pay to pay the crew for that one hour delay!” she wrote.

While recalling this incident, Zeenat Aman concluded the note by heaping words of praise on the late actor-director. “Feroz was suave, charming and polished. He was a talented actor-director, and Qurbani remains one of my favourite projects to date,” she wrote.