Raveena Tandon recalls the 90s

Brut India

Years after she danced to "Tip Tip Barsa Paani", Raveena Tandon spoke about the dance number, her relationship with Akshay Kumar and the gossip magazines of the 90s.

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00:00TT and Thunder Thighs and Miss This and Miss That.

00:03You had Thunder Thighs? I don't believe that.

00:0590s journalism and that breed of those journalists were really dirty.

00:09Really dirty.

00:10Is that Tip Tip Parsa Pani was not vulgar?

00:30Your personal life has always been something that's always in the news.

00:51Even today if I was to Google Raveena Tandon, Akshay Kumar's name comes up with it.

00:56And you broke up with him 25-30 years ago or something.

01:00But it still comes up.

01:01And it comes up that there's war between everyone whom he's involved with.

01:07Once I had moved out of his life, I was already dating someone else.

01:11And he had moved on dating someone else.

01:13So where will jealousy come from?

01:15It's January 2023 when we are taping this.

01:19And the fourth or the fifth story if you type Raveena Tandon comes up is

01:25Raveena Tandon's engagement with Akshay Kumar.

01:27Which year was that?

01:29Forgotten about it.

01:31So it's still talked about.

01:34I think there are some pairings which people never forget.

01:38Yeah, I think we were a hit pair during Maura.

01:42And even now when we bump into socially, we all meet, we all chat.

01:46I mean everyone moves on.

01:47Girls are changing their boyfriends every week in colleges since then to now.

01:52But one engagement that has broken is still stuck to my head.

01:55I don't know why.

01:56But yeah, so everyone moves on.

01:58People have divorces, people move on.

02:00So what's the big deal?

02:01So even after that, after he broke up with you, it was always that

02:04whoever he finds, he's finding people who look like Raveena.

02:08Do you remember that?

02:10No, I don't.

02:11You don't? Or you just blocked it out of your mind?

02:13I would not read anything that was written about that.

02:16Because then why unnecessarily raise your blood pressure?

02:18So don't read it, sit down.

02:19Do you do that often?

02:22Yeah, I block it out.

02:23Gossip magazines of those days, now there are no magazines.

02:25Were completely blocked from my house.

02:27Really?

02:28Yeah, because 90s gossip magazines were the worst.

02:31And some of those women I see roaming around today

02:34carrying the women's lib badge over their heads and their hearts

02:38who were the worst enemies of women, would body shame women,

02:41would slut shame women, would do everything possible

02:45to bring another woman down.

02:47And today they roam around being the biggest feminists.

02:50So I was like, when did that happen?

02:52If I start telling stories about them.

02:54To you where nobody would body shame you, you always looked perfect.

02:57Oh no, no, no, please, I was called a lot of things.

03:00You always was?

03:01Khabi 90s ke kholo, TT and Thunder Thighs and Miss This and Miss That.

03:04You had Thunder Thighs? I don't believe that.

03:06Yeah, but I was plump.

03:08I started at 16 and a half.

03:10I had all full baby fat, which still hasn't gone.

03:13So I don't care.

03:14I have been like that, I am like that.

03:16Too bad.

03:17No, you're exaggerating.

03:19It was like, I think Sridevi was called that a lot.

03:23I think after that I was called that.

03:25I don't know, I remember some of these titles.

03:27No, no, not only for me, a lot of other heroines also.

03:30And besides that, I think instead of supporting women,

03:33what they did was to, they would, all these women editors

03:37first of all would fall in love with the heroes.

03:39And then what the hero said was the last word.

03:42If he wanted to, you know, pan a woman,

03:44the woman would be panned and shamed

03:47and literally her career ruined in the magazines

03:52with nasty articles being put out about her.

03:55There were so many untrue articles that were put out

03:58just because some heroes went and said,

04:00Okay, write about her like this now.

04:01And it would be the last word.

04:03And even if there would be an apology,

04:05there would be one last line in some other issue of the magazine

04:08that that story we carried ultimately proved not to be true.

04:11But who will read that?

04:12At that time, the screaming headlines is what made news, right?

04:16Yeah.

04:17So that used to happen a lot.

04:18Social media kind of changed all that, right?

04:20There is the viciousness also,

04:22but at least you can put out your point of view.

04:24Yes, yes.

04:25That is what is very, very necessary

04:27is that today you can put out the truth instantly

04:30that see, this is the proof and this is where I was

04:33and this is what it is.

04:34But at that time, what the newspapers wrote

04:36or what the media wrote was the last word.

04:38You didn't have a voice.

04:40It was like, I remember anybody put on a little weight,

04:44any actress put on,

04:45Is she pregnant? Is she pregnant? Is she pregnant?

04:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.

04:47That whole thing.

04:48At least now, I mean, within a day,

04:50denial can go out that,

04:52Okay, it was just I had samosas for lunch or whatever.

04:55Yeah.

04:56No, no, not samosa.

04:57I mean, whatever.

04:58I mean, I'm being facetious.

04:59But it used to be really, really dirty.

05:02The 90s journalism and that breed of those journalists

05:06were really dirty.

05:07Really dirty.

05:08Really dirty.

05:09Is that why you just moved out once you got married?

05:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.

05:12That's why I was like, okay, I'm waiting

05:14because this viciousness I can't deal with

05:16because I am not like that as a person.

05:18What I am, I am on the face.

05:20I think initially, in fact,

05:21I remember even writing an article about,

05:23I don't believe in plucking flowers.

05:26I prefer flowers and animals in the forest

05:29and in the nature where they should be.

05:31So I always, I started this trend

05:33of sending people cakes right in the 90s.

05:35And I remember writing an article,

05:37see how diabetically, artificially fake,

05:40sweet she is nowadays.

05:42She sends cakes to everyone

05:43instead of flowers for her birthday.

05:45How does that make that an article?

05:48I would say I'd rather send a bottle of wine or cake.

05:51And that's what I started.

05:52I used to send everyone cakes.

05:55So that was supposed to be fake.

05:57So aise likhte the un log.

05:59So I'm going to go with the films

06:02that I like the most.

06:03So I'll go with...

06:05We all know Chichora film.

06:07It has to be, right?

06:08I mean, the 90s was something else.

06:10You know, that reminds me,

06:12when there was this talk about that Deepika song,

06:17Deepika Shahrukh song,

06:18that Besharam Rang song,

06:19which was coming on.

06:20And at that time, everybody was like,

06:22oh, you know, it's too vulgar and things.

06:24And then of course, because it was orange

06:27and so all the orange dress songs came up.

06:31You know that, okay, wasn't this vulgar,

06:33wasn't this vulgar, wasn't this vulgar,

06:34wasn't this vulgar?

06:35Yellow and orange.

06:36What did I do in orange?

06:37Yellow, you were yellow.

06:38So your tip tip barsa pani thing.

06:40So when we were all talking,

06:42mere moose nikal gaya ki agar ye vulgar hai,

06:44which I think is,

06:45I mean, it's not a nice song, this one.

06:47At least personally, I didn't like it.

06:49I don't believe it should be banned,

06:50but I didn't like it.

06:51Toh maine kaha ki wo tip tip barsa pani bhi toh.

06:54And this was on air, by the way.

06:56This is an on air discussion we had

06:58on one of the podcasts.

06:59I think, how dare you say tip tip barsa pani?

07:02So there were all these 90s kids,

07:04these guys now, they are in their 40s.

07:06And they were like,

07:07don't you dare say anything about tip tip barsa pani.

07:11Blasphemy.

07:12Did you even realize when you shoot?

07:13Tip tip barsa pani was not vulgar.

07:15In fact, there was a point where,

07:17I think even the co-producer of the film,

07:20he kind of mentioned in an interview of his recently

07:22that Raveena didn't want to do a song earlier.

07:24And then we kind of convinced her

07:26because they wanted the whole song

07:28without the saree on.

07:29And I was like, hello, that ain't happening at all.

07:31I'm going to keep my saree on.

07:33Yeah, okay, getting drenched is okay.

07:35You're doing a rain song.

07:36The whole world has done rain songs.

07:37And the whole world gets drenched.

07:39But I said, no way, Jose.

07:40I'm keeping my saree on.

07:41So there's just that one flip of a saree

07:43and then where he dances with the saree

07:45and then it's back on to me

07:46where I actually put it on.

07:48So, I mean, there are times

07:49when you can put your foot down.

07:50No one puts a gun on your head and says,

07:52do these things.

07:53And see, I've always believed

07:55that there's a thin line

07:57between sensuality and sexuality,

07:59in your face sexuality.

08:00So I am not a person

08:02who would like in your face sexuality

08:05that come see I'm sexual.

08:06I think that's a little too much.

08:08I think sensuality can be in anything,

08:10can be in a hair flip,

08:11can be in your eyes,

08:12can be in your expression,

08:13can be even in the way you smile.

08:15So that is,

08:16I'm a believer of sensuous things,

08:19of sensuality.

08:20And that's how I see Tip Tip Barsa Pani.

08:22Tip Tip was a very, very sensuous song.

08:23There was no in your face vulgarity

08:26as such in that, you know,

08:28where in those days

08:29when there was an era in the 90s

08:31where all double meaning songs

08:32and double meaning, you know, films like,

08:35I mean, there's so many of those songs

08:37which are so vulgar and so obscene.

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