Rani Mukherjee drives a motorbike, ...

Rani Mukherjee drives a motorbike, rams into Salman Khan
20th Nov 2006 22.35 IST
By ApunKaChoice

Normally, a hero drives the bike and the heroine sits pillion. But a scene in Ravi Chopra's movie Babul shows otherwise.

In the film, Rani Mukherjee and Salman Khan play husband and wife. One scene in the movie needed to show Rani driving the bike all by herself and stopping it before Salman.

Since Rani has had no or perhaps little experience of driving a motorbike, the movie's director and her co-star Salman insisted that she undergo a brief training in handling the vehicle.

But Rani was confident she could handle the machine all by herself.

Reports have it that when the shot was being canned, Rani started the bike and rode off smoothly. But when she was supposed to stop in front of Salman, she did not apply the brakes. As a result, the bike rammed into Salman. Both Rani and Salman fell to the ground.

Thankfully, none of the two stars had any major injury.

On the contrary, the accident evoked laughter from the shooting unit. Even Salman took the incident very sportingly.

'Babul' is the story of a father-in-law who goes against tradition to set a remarriage of his widowed daughter-in law. Amitabh Bachchan and Rani play the respective roles. Salman plays her husband who dies in an accident. John Abraham plays Rani's friend who wants to marry her after she is widowed.

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