New Delhi:
Heeramandi star Manisha Koirala recently took a walk down memory lane and recalled the challenging experience of shooting the iconic film Bombay. Manisha Koirala recalled shooting in a forest full of leeches while filming the song Tu Hi Re. In an interview with O2 India, he said, “Tu Hi Re was a very difficult song. There was one part, two places that were very difficult (to shoot in). One was on rocks and the sea hit those rocks and there’s big splashes, it was quite dangerous, but somehow we managed to shoot it and got it right and everything was ok. The other place was… I don’t know what area it was, we were in the middle of a thick jungle and it was full of leeches.”
“So if you walk even one step, a little distance, there would be leeches all over your leg. (For the song) I had to wear a skirt, that blue skirt and I had to run through the jungle… It was full of leeches, it was a lot of trouble. But then you find the mechanism , we were told you put salt, someone we used boots. We figured out how to navigate a difficult situation,” he added.
Earlier during the promotions of Heeramand, Manisha Koirala spoke about her journey in the film industry, life after battling cancer and her experience of working with Sanjay Leela Bhansali after 28 years. Interacting with NDTV, Manisha said, “When I was offered this project, I was in Nepal, gardening and I was really excited. I was waiting for so long. It was 28 years of waiting and finally Sanjay came with a good project and I told him, ‘Sanjay doesn’t need 28 more years to offer another good thing for me.”
