Mumbai: Karisma Kapoor, an actress best known for roles in movies like “Andaz Apna Apna,” “Coolie No. 1,” and “Raja Hindustani,” recently took a trip down memory lane and talked about how she didn’t have a vanity van when she first set foot in the glamorous world of films.
The actress, who currently judges Season 4 of India’s Best Dancer, talked about the changes in the film industry over the past three decades.
Karisma made her acting debut in 1991 at 16 with ‘Prem Qaidi’ opposite debutant Harish Kumar.
Speaking about the late 1990s, she said, “The first film in which I got to work on a monitor was ‘Dil To Pagal Hai’. It was during the dance of envy shot. Yash ji (Yash Chopra) got it, and Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra were also on the sets… ‘Aur hum toh paagal ho gaye the’ (we went mad looking at the monitor). We thought, ‘Really? We could see what we have done in a shot.”
She also spoke about the first sync-sound film that she worked on — ‘Zubeidaa’.
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“I saw another milestone. The first film with sync sound was ‘Zubeidaa’, directed by Shyam Benegal. It was the first movie where we put on lapel mics for ‘real life sound’,” she recalled.
The actress was referring to a major technological advancement in Hindi cinema: the industry moved on from studio dubbing of characters to sync sound, where the dialogues were recorded live on the sets. This made the scene immersive and added more depth to the narrative.
She added, “The number of vans that are parked outside the sets of this show… We didn’t have anything like this. We used to go behind a tree and change our outfits for a scene, sometimes we went to the loo… So yeah, our industry has seen major changes in the last 40-50 years.”
The actress is seen as a judge alongside Terence Lewis and Geeta Kapoor in ‘India’s Best Dancer 4’.
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–IANS
