Shabana Azmi didn’t talk to Jugal Hansraj when he worked as a child actor on Masoom: ‘She didn’t want us to become too close’ | Bollywood News
When we think of Shekhar Kapur, the films that instantly come to mind are usually Mr. India or Bandit Queen. As path-breaking and diverse as those two were, there is also his 1983 relationship drama Masoom, his directorial debut, which over time has become even more seminal in more ways than one. If it was Kapur’s directorial debut, it was also the first film in which actor Jugal Hansraj, known for Mohabbatein, made his debut as a child actor. The film also starred Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. Now, in a recent conversation with Pinkvilla, Jugal Hansraj revealed that Shabana Azmi, who plays his stepmother in the film, didn’t talk to him at all on the film sets. He recalled, “We used to stay very distant from each other. She is more of a method actor, and she was very close to the actors who played her on-screen daughters, as she was playing their mother in the film. But she kept a little distance from me. Later, I learned that it was part of her …
