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“Was asked to wear padded bra for Choli ke peeche kya hai song”: Actress Neena Gupta makes shocking revelation about director
Neena Gupta made many revelations with her autobiography, Sach Kahun Toh. She recalled one such incident when, for the film Khalnayak, director Subhash Ghai asked her to wear a padded bra for the song Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai. The actress wrote that she was “embarrassed” when the filmmaker said “kuch bharo”.
NEENA GUPTA WASN’T TOO KEEN ABOUT HER ROLE IN KHALNAYAK
Neena Gupta revealed that she wasn’t too keen on her role in Subhash Ghai’s Khalnayak. She wrote, “When I first heard the song, I knew it was catchy. But when Subhash Ghai told me what my role would be, I wasn’t so keen anymore. I liked the fact that my part was sung by my friend Ila Arun, with whom I had acted in many films. But I couldn’t do it.”
WHEN SHUBHASH GHAI ASKED NEENA TO WEAR A PADDED BRA
Recalling the embarrassing moment, Neena revealed how Ghai asked her to wear a padded bra for the song. “They put me in a tribal Gujarati outfit and sent me to Subhash Ghai for approval. ‘No! No! No! No!’ he shouted. ‘Kuch bharo.’ I was so embarrassed. In my opinion, he was referring to my choli and stating that it needed to be filled. It wasn’t anything personal, I knew. He had visualised something . . . bigger for the rendition. I didn’t shoot that day. But the next day, I was presented to him in a different outfit, with a bra that was heavily padded, and he seemed satisfied. Subhash Ghai was very particular about what he wanted, which was why he was such a good director,” she shared.
NEENA GUPTA RECALLS HER CASTING COUCH EXPERIENCE
In her book, Neena Gupta also recalled a casting couch incident when a producer asked her to spend the night with him. The Badhaai Ho actress revealed that she got a call from a producer, from the South, to meet him. She wrapped up her work at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, and as the hotel was nearby, decided to pay the producer a visit. When the producer called her up to his room, she feared something was not right. She wrote, “My basic instinct told me to not go upstairs. That I should ask him to come down to the lobby instead.”
Since she was afraid of losing out on the opportunity, she went up anyway. The actress revealed that the producer proceeded to talk to her about the many actors he had launched for hours. An excerpt from the book reads, “‘So, what’s my role, sir?’ I asked him finally when he paused to catch his breath. ‘The heroine’s friend,’ he said. When he explained it to me, it seemed like a very small part. ‘Ok … I have to go now, sir’ I said, ‘My friends are waiting for me.’….’Go? Where? he asked. He seemed genuinely shocked. Aren’t you going to spend the night here?’ Suddenly, I felt like someone had just poured a bucket of ice water on my head. Khoon sookh gaya (My blood froze).”
She then wrote that the producer thrust her bag in her arms and told her that she wasn’t being forced to do anything, after which she ran out.
Neena Gupta was last seen playing the lead role in Netflix’s Sardar Ka Grandson, co-starring Arjun Kapoor and Rakul Preet Singh.
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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