Aishwarya Rai stitched a fat suit for Abhishek Bachchan on Guru set, dancers’ shoes melted because of 60-degree heat

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Abhishek revealed that the song, “Ek Lo Ek Muft”, composed by AR Rahman and sung by Bappi Lahiri, had lone arrived earlier that morning. However, it was conscionable a unsmooth track, without the completed euphony — a skeletal “click track” for shooting. “For the archetypal 2 days, we changeable the opus utilizing the ‘click’ way due to the fact that helium (Rahman) has sent however this guy’s going to beryllium singing,” helium shared. Adding to the challenge, the visuals for the opus required him to look importantly heavier than successful the scenes that were to beryllium changeable during that schedule. “He had antecedently fixed maine 2 months to summation weight. That night, I inactive remember, Ameira (costume decorator Ameira Punvani) and Aishwarya made a abdominous suit for maine by stitching kambals (blankets) together. Then they took immoderate shady grey worldly and enactment it connected my hair. He (Mani) was like, ‘shave your head’. I said, ‘But, we are inactive shooting the younger portions.’ Amid each this, I was performing to a click track.”

Abhishek humorously added that by the clip they were acceptable to sprout the portion of the opus featuring Aishwarya’s creation sequence, Rahman had finalised and sent the implicit track. “Then she started dancing and I was lasting determination thinking, ‘What is happening?!’” He besides shared the aggravated conditions they endured during the shoot, revealing that Mani Ratnam made him deterioration the abdominous suit successful 60-degree Celsius heat. “It was summertime and we were shooting successful chromatic caves. In that song, you tin really spot the rubber from immoderate of the dancers’ shoes melting onto the stones.”