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In an exclusive interview with senior most journalist Bharathi S Pradhan for Lehren, Madhoo reveals the unheard story of bagging her magical debut in Kuku Kohli's Phool Aur Kaante (1991) movie alongside Ajay Devgn. #madhoo #madhooshah #phoolaurkaante #ajaydevgn #kukukohli #hemamalini #madhoopodcast

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00:00So I didn't see myself that I could become an actor
00:04And then I became an actor
00:06So I always say that I didn't become an actor
00:09Or I didn't have a career because of me
00:11I had a career in spite of me
00:13And then when the shoot started
00:15They thought that I wasn't ready
00:17And then they replaced me with another artist
00:21So after shooting, they replaced me
00:24Yes, after 3-4 days
00:27Then I realized that I wasn't in that film
00:30I came from a place of such a not good feeling
00:33When I went to the set
00:35Neither did Ajay Devgan
00:36Neither did I see Amrish Puri
00:38Neither did I see Aruna Irani Ji
00:40Neither did I appreciate Nadeem Shravan's tune
00:43I didn't see anything
00:47I met you in 1991 when Poole and Kante came
00:51You and Ajay Devgan
00:53Both of you were the first film
00:55For both of you
00:57And it was wonderful
00:58Such a big hit
00:59Yes
01:00And it was really nice meeting you there Yuro
01:03How did you get that film?
01:05You know this is an easy question actually
01:09And it is a very magical and difficult question
01:14How is it?
01:16Because when I thought about myself
01:18What was it?
01:19What was it?
01:20I thought I couldn't get planning
01:23commission
01:24How could we plan
01:25What are our life
01:26How can we plan
01:27How can we plan
01:28And really Kill our life
01:29How can we plan
01:30With our launch
01:31A word
01:34When I was 5 or 6 or 8 years old, it was the dream that I would become an actress.
01:42When I was 13 or 14 years old, my mother was off.
01:49You were only 12 or 13?
01:54I was only 13.
01:56It was the dream that I would become an actor.
02:04In that sense, I didn't see myself as an actor.
02:08In my teenage years, I didn't think they were good.
02:14I didn't see the criteria for being an actor.
02:18I didn't see myself as an actor.
02:21When I saw myself in the mirror, I saw pimples.
02:25I was a sporty girl.
02:27I was always playing outside.
02:29I was a little bit of weight.
02:35I didn't see myself as an actor.
02:41Then I became an actor.
02:45I always say that I didn't become an actor or I didn't have a career because of me.
02:51I had a career in spite of me.
02:53But how did I get it?
02:55It happened that my father became a producer.
02:59He became a single parent.
03:01He became a producer.
03:03He became a producer.
03:05He made films like Awargi, Marg, Mahesh Bhatt was the director.
03:11I was a producer of Hema Ji.
03:13I had to go to my house.
03:15I had to go to my house.
03:17I had to watch the film and play with the film.
03:19I had to watch the film and rehearsals.
03:21I had to watch the film and rehearsals.
03:23I had to watch that.
03:25I had to watch the dance.
03:27He was a dancer.
03:29He was a dancer.
03:31He saw dance, music, films.
03:33Then my father became a producer.
03:35He was producing music.
03:37He was producing music.
03:39I was a producer for the film.
03:41I knew I was making a film, and he was actually making a film.
03:43And then my father was a producer for the film.
03:45When I was in my music setting, sitting and recording, someone saw me and said to my father that I am making a film and I want to launch Madhu.
03:58So my father was confused because as I said to you, I had seen this dream that I want to become an actor.
04:10And I thought that I can't be one.
04:15And I didn't do this to my father.
04:18And he was a producer.
04:20But I didn't do this to him.
04:23I wanted to be an actor.
04:25And when I went to the set, a producer and director told me to my father that I will launch my son.
04:33And my father was confused because I didn't do this to him.
04:39He was confused.
04:40So he came to the house and said to his tone, he wants to launch you.
04:45And this is a disbelief.
04:48I said, I want to be an actor.
04:52That is when I expressed myself.
04:55Okay.
04:56And then it was launched with them.
04:58So they had made me a photo shoot for Illustrated Weekly Magazine.
05:02And they had enrolled for Roshan Tanijar Ji in the acting school.
05:08They had enrolled for a crash course for a month.
05:12And then when the shoot started, they thought that I wasn't ready.
05:17And then they had replaced me with another artist.
05:22So after shooting, they had replaced me?
05:26Yes.
05:27After 3-4 days, I realized that I wasn't in that film.
05:32But that time of the time, I said, I would have decided that I was a actor.
05:44Then that determination.
05:46I can't see myself as an actor, all that was changed after that moment.
05:56Then I did a diploma course with Roshan Ji, my language and confidence.
06:06I joined a filmy dance class.
06:09I did a filmy dance class.
06:19After answering your question in short, I couldn't answer it in short.
06:24I couldn't answer it in short.
06:26It was a magical moment.
06:31When I was at home, after trying everything, everything didn't happen.
06:37I graduated, studies completed, diploma course.
06:41After all, it was an empty space in my life.
06:45When I was not doing anything, my father was pressure.
06:49When I was at home, when I was at home, I was playing a carom board with my friends and brothers.
07:11That's when I was at home and I was at home and I was at home and the sound of Kukukoli.
07:23He said that I'm saying Kukukoli.
07:25We are making a film.
07:27We are making a film.
07:28We are launching a film.
07:29We are launching a film.
07:30The film has become a film.
07:34We are looking at you for the romantic lead.
07:37So I didn't hear that whole thing because my concentration was on the coin
07:44which I was aiming for and I got my phone
07:47So I didn't even know that there was a big phone on the table
07:52Yes, a landline
07:54And his connection was in the other room
07:56So my father was sitting in the hall room
07:59So I heard a lot of noise here
08:02Just take a call, there is somebody called Kukukoli
08:05Next thing I know he spoke and next thing I knew I was doing that film
08:09Wow
08:10And that is how magically there was no auditioning
08:14There was no office-office
08:17It didn't happen
08:20Waiting period definitely
08:22One time rejection
08:24But that was the training period
08:27And that was the most important period
08:30Because I thought I will try it
08:33Like small, long, fat, thin
08:36Whatever may be the case
08:38Zidh?
08:39Zidh
08:40Now I will become an actor
08:42After that moment I got this opportunity
08:45One question
08:47You said that the film had been made by Adhi
08:50So did you make it with someone else?
08:51I think so
08:52So you replaced someone else?
08:54Yes
08:55And so it goes
08:57Okay
09:00And did you meet Ajay Devgan at that time?
09:03I mean just before shooting or?
09:05No, I got it on the set
09:06And
09:08What was your first impression of Ajay Devgan?
09:12Because he was not a very good looking person
09:14You know I was very blinded by my own desire
09:21Burning desire
09:23Today I am a very different person
09:26So that that 20-year-old girl
09:29To think about this about this, it's difficult for me
09:33Because today I am not a person
09:35But to go back
09:37That 20-year-old girl
09:40Who was fighting in 13 years
09:42Who was fighting in every situation
09:46Who was creating food in the kitchen
09:48Who was in the kitchen
09:49If I forgot to order a gas cylinder, it would not happen to be gas, because I would say
09:58that I would order a gas cylinder in the morning.
10:01Then I would leave the service and stay at home.
10:04Because I would miss it.
10:07Now I was little.
10:09Yes.
10:10But that girl would not believe in her dreams.
10:14I would like to have a belief, self-esteem.
10:19As long as my mother was alive, she would have told me that I am the prettiest girl in the whole world.
10:25And I would go out just to leave my house and go to Hema Ji's house.
10:30Because we were very close as families, like Amba and all of that.
10:33To leave my house.
10:35Cousins come to their house.
10:36The culture of friendship, friends, and friends was not there.
10:40We would have left with our house.
10:42We would have left with our friends.
10:43We would have left with our friends.
10:44We would have left with our friends.
10:45And we would have left with our cousin's house.
10:46So my auntie would have told me, after Hema, it is you.
10:51Okay.
10:52Okay.
10:53You know, my mommy used to say, you are going to be the next actor.
10:58I will become an actor.
10:59You are the most beautiful girl in town.
11:01So, that was the belief that mother and father thinking, you are the queen on this earth.
11:09And I didn't see anything.
11:10There was no social media.
11:11There was no exposure.
11:12There was no TV channels.
11:14I didn't know what the world was.
11:16The world was only for me and my world.
11:19That's all.
11:20After that, when I went to Mithibhai College.
11:22Okay.
11:23Okay.
11:24Then I saw, oh, the girls look like this in my life.
11:28Right.
11:29And they can become an actor.
11:32They can become an actor.
11:33They can become an actor.
11:34They can become an actor.
11:35They can become an actor.
11:36They can become an actor.
11:37And then I became into a shadow of me.
11:39So, she took a picture in the picture.
11:40I was telling her.
11:41In fact, this is funny.
11:42Mayesh Bhad had heard of it.
11:43He was my dad's director.
11:44I was the director of my dad's director.
11:46So, after selecting me, I sat on my dad's set.
11:47My dad's set, I was telling her, uncle.
11:48I have been selected to do this role.
11:53He was my father's director, so after selecting me, when I sat on my father's set, I said
12:02uncle, I have been selected to do this role.
12:05You think I can be an actor?
12:07I asked him this.
12:09You think can I be an actor?
12:11So he in his very majestic voice said, do you want to be an actor?
12:15He asked me.
12:16I said yes.
12:17He said then never ask this question ever again.
12:20You want it, you go for it.
12:22He said that to me once.
12:23Typical management.
12:24Yes.
12:25Yes.
12:26But having said that, I was replaced.
12:32I faced rejection and rejection because I was not good enough.
12:36Obviously.
12:37They thought that I wasn't ready or I wasn't good enough.
12:40So I wasn't.
12:41That picture was made?
12:42It was made.
12:43And did you see it?
12:44I didn't see it.
12:45But it went.
12:47I didn't see it.
12:48I didn't see it.
12:49I didn't see it.
12:50I didn't see it.
12:51I didn't see it.
12:52But I want to come to that.
12:53So you asked Ajay Devgan to go to the set.
12:54How did you see it?
12:55The back story is I came from a place of such a not good feeling.
13:00Right.
13:01When I went to the set, I didn't see it.
13:02I didn't see it.
13:03I didn't see it.
13:04I didn't see it.
13:05I didn't see the set.
13:06I didn't see it.
13:07It was just me.
13:08I didn't see it.
13:10It was just me.
13:11That's it.
13:12That's it.
13:13That's it.
13:14And when I went to the set, I came from a place of such a not good feeling.
13:17When I went to the set, I didn't see Ajay Devgan, Amrish Puri, Arunayrani Ji.
13:22I didn't appreciate the tune I had seen Nadim Sharawan.
13:27I didn't see anything.
13:29It was just me.
13:31It was only that I will become an actor and I will see myself on the screen on the screen and I will say it from the whole world.
13:42I belong to the film world but I did it all by myself.

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