Shabana Azmi Recalls A Young Crew Member Could Not Recognise Her: ‘I Said With A Straight Face…’

Shabana Azmi has been working in the industry for the past five decades now and has established herself as a renowned critically acclaimed actress. In a recent episode of Khane Mein Kya Hai, the actress shared an incident when a crew member could not recognise her during the trailer launch event of Dabba Cartel. She further shared after revealing her name, the girl thought that she was Shibani Dandekar. Azmi further mentioned that she didn’t mind the girl’s ignorance as she was sweet and much focused on her work. But her Dabba Cartel co-star Anjali Anand was taken aback by the fact that she could not even recognise producer of the show Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar. 

Shabana Azmi said, “A 20-year-old girl, and she’s looking (into the guest list). ‘Who are you?’ (she said, pointing at Shabana), so all of them (other cast members) just fainted. I said, with a straight face, ‘Shabana Azmi.’ ‘You’re not Shibani Dandekar?’ (the girl asked).”

The actress also shared her happiness of seeing number of young women working across the department on a film set. In the same interview, she also shared how Javed Akhtar joked about the absence of ‘dumb blondes’ on film sets these days. She further added, “He said, ‘Yar, I’m fed up with all these people who are no longer girls. Itne efficient hain, aa rahe hain with files, crew bhi sari ladkiyon ki (They’re so efficient, they come in with their files, the entire crew is full of women). There are no longer any dumb blondes, fluttering their eyelashes, and saying, ‘I don’t know anything.” I said, ‘Joote khaoge (you’ll be smashed with shoes).’ But I know he was just trying to rile me up.”

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