… and that too by a six-year-old, but only for a shoot 🙂 Doyel Dhawan, who plays Bipasha Basu‘s daughter in Aatma, had to slap her for a scene in the film. Doyel’s character is possessed by Nawazuddin‘s character at this point, and apparently she slapped Bips so hard that the entire unit was left in shock!
Doyel was apparently sad after doing that scene, and Bipasha had to talk her through it, saying that it was only for the film and so it’s all okay. Interestingly, director Suparn Verma had Doyel rehearse the scene on him, which meant he got slapped around by her for an hour until she was ready to do the scene. *lol*
In another interview, Bipasha claimed that they had to be very patient with Doyel because, after all, she was only a child – sometimes she would fall asleep mid-shoot and they had to go ahead and shoot some scenes that didn’t include her. Suparn called her quite the diva on sets because sometimes she’d ask them when pack-up was, since she was hungry!
But Bipasha says that she knows she’ll be a very good mother someday – we guess working in such close proximity with Doyel gave her the experience! 😉
Pix: Yogen Shah for MissMalini.