Sunny Deol tears up as Rajkumar Santoshi recalls Dharmendra’s reaction to Batwara 1947: ‘Bola tha picture chalegi’
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Aamir Khan Productions’ Batwara 1947 trailer was unveiled on Tuesday in the presence of the movie's cast and crew. It also left everyone emotional as director Rajkumar Santoshi narrated late Dharmendra’s bonding with the movie. Sunny Deol , Shabana Azmi, Karan Deol and Abhimanyu Singh were in attendance at the launch of the trailer. The movie's story revolves around the chaos and mess caused during the partition of 1947, which saw many families torn apart in the madness of communal riots.
Adding to this, Sunny Deol gets emotional as Rajkumar Santoshi recalls Dharmendra’s reaction to Batwara 1947. Sunny Deol gets emotional over Dharmendra’s connection with the movie The trailer launch became particularly moving when Rajkumar spoke about Dharmendra , who had watched the movie before his death. Sunny was visibly emotional, wiping away tears as the filmmaker recalled how the veteran star reacted when he was shown the movie.
Meanwhile, View this post on Instagram Addressing the press in Hindi, Rajkumar shared, “Dharam ji ki blessing bahut hai iss movie ke andar. Narration suna tha and he was very emotional. Aankh mein aansu aa gaye, bahut aashirwad diya aur Dharam ji ki mere khyaal se last movie joh unhone dekhi woh bhi Batwara hai. Tabhi unhone bola tha ki picture bahut chalegi bahut achcha kaam kiya aap logon ne unka aashirwad hai toh I am grateful and I thank Dharam ji today here."
Notably, (Translation: This movie carries Dharam-ji's abundant blessings. When he heard the narration, he was deeply moved—he was even brought to tears—and he offered his heartfelt blessings. In fact, I believe Batwara was the last movie of mine that he watched; even back then, he predicted it would be a huge success and lauded the excellent work we had done. I am truly grateful for his blessings and wish to express my thanks to Dharam-ji here today.)
As per the latest buzz, Shabana Azmi also got emotional and opened up about one of the most difficult moments she had to movie for Batwara 1947. The veteran star plays a character who is subjected to violence and humiliation, with a scene in the trailer showing her being dragged by the antagonist as her kurta is torn.
In further updates, “There is a scene in the movie which, personally, as a human being, made me feel very humiliated and very stripped of any dignity. You see a glimpse of it in the trailer, where the villain drags me and tears my kurta. At that moment, I don't think I have ever felt so vulnerable and exposed as I did as a human being,” she shared.
On top of that, View this post on Instagram Shabana gets emotional while talking about Sunny Deol The star also spoke about another interesting incident involving Sunny and his family. Shabana shared that her last show was the theatre production of Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani with Dharmendra, and she will be back on stage, doing a play with Sunny and Karan Deol.
“My last movie to rollout in theatres was with Dharam ji, and now my next movie is with Sunny and Karan. Now I can work with Abhay too. You all should ask Bobby to get ready as well,” she joked, drawing laughter from the audience.
Source: Hindustan Times