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Manisha Koirala insisted to prima successful Chottisi Love Story. (Photo: IMDb)
Manisha Koirala starred successful the 2002 movie Chottisi Love Story alongside a 14-year-old Aditya Seal. The movie was an adaptation of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Love. Upset with the mode definite scenes had been changeable with her double, Manisha has adjacent approached the tribunal to enactment the merchandise of the film. After the movie released, it received antagonistic reviews. Manisha allegedly progressive governmental figures to prohibition the merchandise of the film, accusing the film’s manager Shashilal K Nair of utilizing objectionable scenes.
In a caller interview, the filmmaker has shared his broadside of the story. In an interrogation with Friday Talkies, the filmmaker said, “I wanted a newcomer, model-looking miss for the film. Manisha said I volition bash it. I said this is going to beryllium an experiment-like film. She said, ‘I volition do.’ Manish was not model-looking, I needed a bladed girl. I told her that and she was like, ‘I tin spell to the gym, workout and suffer weight.’ When she talks truthful overmuch that I won’t adjacent instrumentality money. You get convinced. I gave her a mates of months but she couldn’t suffer weight. She came connected acceptable connected the archetypal time of the shoot, I saw her and I was disappointed. She is truthful overweight, however volition we marque this film?”
He added, “I discussed this with her. It was expected to beryllium a movie wherever a lad stalks a miss with a binocular. Now for idiosyncratic to bash that, the miss should person those benignant of looks. How tin she play the role? The movie needed scenes similar her changing and stuff. We had a agelong gathering during the luncheon break. We decided, for close-up shots, we tin usage Manisha’s shots and for agelong changeable we tin usage duplicate due to the fact that I didn’t privation to wounded her and archer her delight spell back. She was co-operative and adjuvant due to the fact that some Manisha and the duplicate shared the aforesaid costume.”
Previously, speaking to Times Now, Shashilal said, “The lone crushed I spot for her to make specified uproar is she wants to get into politics. It’s the lone mode I tin marque consciousness of this madness. I ne'er wanted this disfigured situation. Manisha is similar family. I wanted to marque a movie with newcomers .I whitethorn person succeeded successful bringing successful the assemblage to spot my tiny film. But it’s similar getting a stroke successful the tummy and getting 1 saccharine successful compensation. I cannot bask the sweet. My beingness is successful turmoil. Memories going backmost 15 years person been ruined. Manisha and I tin ne'er beryllium friends again, though I privation we could be. I privation she didn’t marque this an ego issue.”
Manisha, however, refused the claims of her attempting to get the movie banned. She told Times Now, “I privation the shots with the duplicates removed. And I deliberation the posters displaying bums and breasts are successful precise atrocious taste. Also, present that the movie is making profits everywhere, wherefore should I not instrumentality immoderate fees? I privation a stock of the profits.”
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