When Keksi became Sexy!

TV actors recall their most embarassing moments on-screen

GITA HARI

Tripping, falling, goofing up in front of people are all common things that happen to us but for the stars of the small tube, to encounter such a situation in front of the rolling camera can be quite embarrassing for the doer but very funny and amusing for the observer. Not much can be done about the captured moment, nevertheless, it is interesting to recount the anecdotes.
To trip or fall is by itself quite embarrassing and to have that canned is worse still. That's exactly what happened to Pooja Ghai while she was shooting for Viraasat. Aman Verma had to push her in a scene. "I had worn slippers and I guess the floor was damp because when Aman just shoved me, I slipped and fell on my back with my feet up. All this was canned and the director said it will look very natural but there was no way I would consent to have it aired that way." The scene was enacted again but her son Raj, who had come on the sets for the first time, has his reservations against Aman Verma because he pushed his mother. Aparna Tilak's experience during her serial Family No. 1 days when she had to sit on a horseback in Juhu, is quite funny. True to the demands of her character, she always had to have a hairbrush and mirror in her hands.
Relating the incident, a mortified Aparna says, "I got onto the horse and when the director said 'action', I inadvertently kicked the horse and it started running. Luckily, there was a huge crowd that had gathered and the horse stopped after some distance." Later when she regained her senses and realised that the horse should not have been kicked, she felt embarrassed. Manav Gohil recounts the time when he and his co-star could not stop laughing, "We went on an uncontrollable laughing spree and even after several retakes, in spite of not wanting to goof up the takes, we could not manage." Simple Kaul has been caught a couple of times chatting with costars on the sets or in the loo when the mike has been on. "Once I was talking animatedly about someone, with my co-star and making faces, without realising that the camera was rolling. And then suddenly when I realised, I was too embarrassed to say anything," says Simple. Rushali Arora had the irritating habit of chewing gum while shooting and her co-stars used to chide her about it. Recounting her moment, she says, "I had to do a scene where I was required to laugh and my chewing gum became visible on the camera. My director just screamed at me." Another time when she had to learn some lines and when a word was changed in the dialogue, it just became difficult as she had got stuck up on the previous word.
Sometimes the words get goofed up. Rajesh Khera faced such a state when while shooting for SAB's Left Right Left, he had to say "Humne charaon taraf landmine lagaake rakhe hain", by mistake, he said, 'landline' instead of landmine. Another similar case was encountered by Ravee Gupta as just a couple of days ago, she was shooting at Umergaon as Keksi for Raavan where she has a tiff with her screen husband and she decides to leave the ashram. Narrating the incident, she says, "I had to mouth lines like, 'Main Keksi aapko chhod ke ja rahi hoon' but I goofed up and said 'Main Seksi aapko…. ' It was supposed to be a tense moment but on hearing me say 'Seksi' everyone laughed as it sounded like 'sexy'." She was too embarrassed for words. Parizaad Kolah Marshall, being a Parsi faces problems with Hindi diction and she being the anchor of Laughter Challenge, has to speak impromptu in front of the camera. "There are many times when I pronounce words funnily and Sidhu and Shekhar have a good laugh," says Parizaad