During her illustrious career as an actress, Mona Singh has been a part of some iconic projects and has proven her mettle again and again on screen. While she started her career on television, she has also conquered the movie and the OTT space. One of her most memorable projects is Rajkumar Hirani’s directorial venture 3 Idiots. Mona played the role of Kareena Kapoor Khan’s older sister in the film. She recently spoke about an iconic scene in the film in which she had to slap Aamir Khan’s character.
Speaking to Humans Of Bombay, Mona said, “The Table Tennis scene was pretty intense and everybody was sharing their stories. All the men around me were telling me, ‘My wife did this, my wife did that.’ Rajkumar Hirani sir told me, ‘My wife kicked me out.’ Madhavan told me, ‘My wife bit me.’ Then I was like, ‘What should I do?’ Then Aamir sir told me, ‘Mona you slap me.’”
She added, “Then I slapped him but it wasn’t hard enough and he was like, ‘Asli vala thappad maro (Give me a real slap).’ I went full Sardarni josh and I slapped him. I remember his bodyguard staring at me and I was like, ‘Sorry.’ But Aamir sir continued acting because that’s what he loves. He wants it to be all real and I gave it all real.”
Mona said she had a great time working on the film as none of the actors acted ‘starry’ on set. “All of the actors in that film were so grounded. They kept rehearsing with all of us. They kept saying, ‘Mona tum star ho. We love you.’ I was like, ‘Why isn’t anyone acting starry?’ Coming from a non-filmy background, we all have preconceived notions about every actor, but none of them were like that. They were all pranksters,” she said.
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