Sonali Bendre: I was given Pooja Bhatt rejects

Sonali Bendre

Bollywood actress Sonali Bendre recently recalled her glory days in Bollywood and revealed some interesting anecdotes. She was talking to Humans of Bombay.

In her hit song in the film 'Naraaz', Sonali revealed all her costumes were hand-me-downs of the main lead Pooja Bhatt, "When I signed 'Naraaz' with Bhatt sahib, the clothes for the second heroine were the rejects of Pooja Bhatt. That's what came to me. But the advantage of that was her rejects were clothes only I could pull off. Suddenly that one song from Naaraz made me."

Further talking about the importance put on looks in Bollywood, the actress said, "Film is a visual medium, that's the business. There is no need to shy away from it. If you do not look a certain way, you cannot be on screen. You need to have a certain kind of symmetry, and it is only because of that symmetry I got into this business."

Sonali Bendre is also an outsider and it is a debate that has become mainstream in the recent years. Sharing her two cents on the insider-outsider debate in the industry, Bendre said, "I remember most of my career, I was not enjoying what I was doing. When I was shooting Naraaz, I did not even know ‘5,6,7,8' was the cue. Everyone started to dance while I was still waiting for the director to call ‘action.' I was so embarrassed. I felt like an imposter."

Recently, Sonali also spoke about the idea of feminism and what it means to her. Her comment comes in the wake of Nora Fatehi's controversial comments about the same. "The definition has taken on this connotation of ‘male-bashing' which a lot of us are not comfortable with. I am not comfortable with ‘male-bashing.' We are looking for equal rights and you want equal rights not up and down. Again that is an imbalance. What you want is a balance and either way when the scale moves and there's no balance, then there is a problem," Bendre said in an interview with Janice Sequeira.

Sonali Bendre is currently gearing up for the second season of 'The Broken News 2'. The show also stars Shriya Pilgaonkar and Jaideep Ahlawat.