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Rajiv Rai clarified that during the actual shoot of Mohra, there were no signs of any off-screen romance.
Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon in a still from Mohra’s hit song Tip Tip Barsa Paani.
Rajiv Rai, the director behind cult classics like Tridev, Mohra and Gupt, has finally opened up about the long-standing buzz surrounding Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon’s alleged relationship during the making of Mohra. In a recent interview with Vickey Lalwani, Rajiv was asked if he had any idea about the romance between the two lead actors when they filmed the iconic songs Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast and Tip Tip Barsa Paani.
In response, the filmmaker quipped, “I wasn’t sitting there with binoculars, was I?”
When pressed further about whether he could pick up on their body language, Rajiv explained, “There’s no question about it… There are 100-200 people on set. Every actor has to be well-behaved. A heroine has to maintain her reputation. Don’t you think she knows there are a thousand eyes watching her? So, to be very honest, I never saw anything. Whatever I later heard, I was pleasantly surprised like, is this really true?”
He clarified that during the actual shoot of Mohra, there were no signs of any off-screen romance. “It all came out later. People ask if it happened during Mohra, but it had nothing to do with the film,” he added.
In the 1990s, Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon were one of Bollywood’s most talked-about couples and were even briefly engaged before parting ways. Raveena, in a separate chat with ANI, addressed how her past with Akshay still follows her. “Once I had moved out of his life, I was already dating someone else, and he was already dating someone else, so kahan se jealousy ayegi?”
She added, “Girls have been changing their boyfriends every week in colleges, but one engagement that has broken is still stuck to my head, I don’t know why. Everyone moves on.”
Akshay Kumar is now married to Twinkle Khanna, while Raveena tied the knot with producer Anil Thadani in 2004.
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