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Actor Yashpal Sharma, who played Lakha in the Oscar nominated film the riverHe mentioned in an interview that Aamir Khan had devised a ruse to make sure his co-stars looked sleazy in front of the camera. While Aamir and director Ashutosh Gowariker He didn’t explicitly force the actors to stay up all night, Aamir would involve everyone in activities that went on after midnight, which meant they only got a few hours of sleep.
On his appearance in Lallantop Adda a few months back, Yashpal Sharma was asked if the stories about Aamir and Ashutosh keeping everyone on set were true. The actor laughed, and replied in Hindi, “Those of you who have watched Lagan will remember how drained each character looked. They were engaged in a colossal struggle, and had to work hard to defeat the British, and for that they looked like workers and farmers. It must have actually looked like they had been sleeping for two hours.” Just “.
He continued, “What Aamir Khan used to do was he would get everyone together in one room, after an hour of shooting every day, and we would play cards together. We formed LPCC, Lagaan Playing Cards Club. Every day after work, we would play cards at night. We would finish.” By 1 a.m., then we’d be up by 5 a.m. and off on a bus to get ready. We worked hard all day in the 48-degree heat, and you could see the stress on our faces.”
Yashpal, who did films like Shool, Arjun Pandit and Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa before Lagaan, told Indian Express in an interview that He would do the movie for a fraction of the money He has already been paid. “Because I had no work, I knew I would keep doing it with Rs 20,000… Finally when I met Reena Dutta, she told me that her budget was limited and they were paying Rs 1.5 lakh per actor. I just wondered I wanted at least Rs 2 lakh And I agreed. Lagaan was released in 2001, became a huge hit, and is still seen as an important milestone in the history of Hindi cinema. It remains one of only three Indian films to receive an Academy Award nomination in the Best International Feature Film (previously Best Foreign Language Film) category.
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