- By Aarushi Raina
- Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:57 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The Bollywood couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai have impressed the audience not only with their off-screen romance but also with their on-screen chemistry. The duo has shared screen space in many movies, including Guru, Raavan and many others. Recently, Abhishek recalled an interesting story from Mani Ratnam’s 2007 film Guru. He revealed how his now-wife, Aishwarya, stitched a big fat suit for him after the director's impromptu decision to shoot a song.
Abhishek remembered the shooting days of Guru during a session at G5A Cinema House’s Mani Ratnam retrospective.He said, "We were staying in a guest house and it was a day off. Mani came and said, ‘Brinda (choreographer Brinda Gopal) is there, go rehearse, we’re doing a song.’ I said, ‘We’re not supposed to be doing a song; we’re shooting Gurukant Desai’s younger portions.’ When I went down, Brinda master was standing there, totally flummoxed. That’s when I realised Mani had thrown one of his googlies."
Revealing more about the song, Abhishek added, “Ek Lo Ek Muft, composed by AR Rahman and sung by Bappi Lahiri, had only arrived earlier that morning. However, it was just a rough track, without the completed music — a skeletal ‘click track’ for shooting. For the first two days, we shot the song using the ‘click’ track because Rahman had sent us how this guy was going to be singing."
Further elaborating on the song and how it required him to appear heavier than in the usual scenes, Abhishek said, “He had previously given me two months to gain weight. That night, I still remember, Ameira (costume designer Ameira Punvani) and Aishwarya made a fat suit for me by stitching kambals (blankets) together. Then they took some shady grey stuff and put it on my hair. He (Mani) was like, ‘Shave your head.’ I said, ‘But we are still shooting the younger portions.’ Amid all this, I was performing to a click track," the Ghoomer fame actor stated.
Abhishek also shared how he was left wondering when Aishwarya was ready to shoot the part of the song featuring her dance sequence and Rahman completed the track. He said, “Then she started dancing, and I was standing there thinking, ‘What is happening?!’”
About Guru
Directed by Mani Ratnam, Guru revolves around the story of Gurukant Desai, who rises from a small-town man to a successful industrialist. Featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai in lead roles, the film became a hit for its storyline and the performances of the cast.
