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With Urmila Matondkar reportedly gearing up for a comeback, we look back at the time when she ruled Bollywood with some of the most striking and unconventional roles. In this exclusive throwback interview, Urmila shares some intriguing and never-heard-before stories from the sets of her films - revealing the risks and unexpected incidents actors sometimes face while shooting. From Masoom (1983), Narsimha (1991) and Chamatkar (1992) to Drohi (1992), Shreeman Aashique (1993) and more, she takes us behind the scenes of some of her most memorable films. Recalls when she had to kick Shah Rukh Khan in the film 'Chamatkar'. She also recalls a near-death experience during 'Drohi' and how her co-star Nagarjuna helped her escape. Catch these unheard stories and behind-the-scenes memories with Urmila, only on Lehren!

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00:00I didn't want to kill Shah Rukh.
00:04As I was coming to the camera, I would kill him and say something like that.
00:08I was so scared that two minutes ago, I had trouble with him.
00:13And in the next shot, I was kicking him directly.
00:16As we came up on camera, before I understood something,
00:22suddenly, I fell down and fell down.
00:26I fell down and fell down.
00:30I fell down and fell down and fell down.
00:31The force of the water was so much.
00:35I fell down and fell down.
00:39Suddenly, I fell down and fell down.
00:42In the whole picture, I am without makeup.
00:46There is a song called Dream Sequence.
00:49I used a lot of makeup.
00:51In the whole picture, I maintained a very natural kind of look.
00:56It was a very natural kind of look maintained.
01:02In Hindi, I am not a lot.
01:05If I do a Marathi picture, it will be my first film.
01:09But I will see.
01:11I am not a lot of Hindi in Hindi.
01:13So, in my opinion, definitely, this is the reason that,
01:16in fact, if I have little pictures,
01:19if my little pictures have been released,
01:22I feel that whatever the release has been released,
01:24people have liked a lot.
01:26They have less, but I have tried to make a lot of pictures.
01:30Finally, people have liked a lot of pictures,
01:32and how they become a picture.
01:33I am not able to make an artist,
01:36because there is a lot of directors,
01:37other artists, and technicians.
01:38They have a lot of support.
01:39But I do share that
01:41I have a good picture of the tribe,
01:43and I am doing something good.
01:46So, if I am doing less,
01:48then I am doing good quality.
01:50So, in Hindi, yes, definitely.
01:52Wherever I am,
01:54I can be a newcomer.
01:55Wherever I am,
01:56I have to take care of all these things.
01:58I am doing much more.
01:59I have to take care of all these things.
02:005 of these people,
02:01I have to ask you.
02:02You have worked.
02:03And you have made a lot of respect.
02:06I don't know how to do all these pictures.
02:09I have to do all these pictures.
02:09I have to do all these things.
02:10I have to do all these things as a heroine.
02:12If I have to start with the first time,
02:13then,
02:14the Mass Room, of course.
02:15What is a mass room?
02:16There is a particular scene.
02:18When I do,
02:18I don't know what I am doing.
02:21There were lots of sun-naths
02:22in the set.
02:23And you were told me
02:25you are supposed to open the door.
02:26Open the door and open the door and say,
02:28Mommy, just like that.
02:30So, what was that?
02:32Suddenly, I was so serious and said,
02:35Look, you know,
02:36that there's something in your mom's daddy.
02:38But you don't know what it is.
02:40There's a lot of people in your house.
02:43You're a very happy family.
02:45That was all I was told.
02:47And,
02:49I opened the door.
02:50And I just said, Mommy.
02:53Because I'm such a character,
02:55I'm in the age group.
02:57Where the children know
02:59that something is wrong in the house.
03:01But, exactly what's happening?
03:03Why are they dancing?
03:03I don't know.
03:04So, I'm the girl of that age group.
03:07So, I feel like that scene is pretty good.
03:10It was very cute.
03:13And, we enjoyed the music.
03:16And, there's this one particular place
03:18where we all fell down and all that.
03:20And, we said,
03:21Do something.
03:21And, we did something.
03:22And, we did something.
03:23And, we did something.
03:24So, it was nice.
03:26After that,
03:28Narsimha.
03:29So, Narsimha.
03:31As I said,
03:32In my introduction scene,
03:34I was doing the first time comedy.
03:36And, I didn't know what to do.
03:38What to do.
03:39What to do.
03:39What to do.
03:39What to do.
03:40So, I explained everything.
03:42And, the camera rolled.
03:43And, I've done the scene.
03:44And, I think,
03:46It's a lot of fun.
03:47It's a lot of fun.
03:48The sequence is a lot of fun.
03:50And, where the question is,
03:52Why do you sit down?
03:53I think, suddenly,
03:57When you face the first time,
03:58As a heroine.
03:59When you face the camera.
04:00And, when you suddenly play this type of character.
04:03And, when you suddenly play this type of character.
04:05You are in a set.
04:06And, when you are working.
04:08So, I think,
04:10I have handled it well.
04:13So, that's a lot of fun.
04:16That's a lot of fun.
04:18I am talking about all the scenes.
04:20But, when Raviy.
04:23I love him.
04:25And, I love him.
04:27And, I love him.
04:27I love him.
04:27And, I love him.
04:28And, I don't know.
04:29And, I feel very insulted.
04:31That Raviy.
04:31He does the same thing.
04:35But, when I love him.
04:39And, I love him.
04:41There are many dilemmas.
04:45So, I think,
04:45I don't know who it is, who it is.
04:48It's a scene that's very good.
04:50It was quite an intense scene.
04:52In Chambatkar, my God, the only thing I enjoyed the most was
04:56a girl who will eat a cat.
04:59We've had a lot of fun during that song
05:02from the first day to the last day.
05:05Like, I had to kill Shah Rukh.
05:10As I come to the camera, I kill a cat
05:12and I say something like that.
05:14So, I was so scared that two minutes ago,
05:17I had a problem with her.
05:19And in the next shot, I was kicking her directly.
05:22So, after two or three takes,
05:24I couldn't kick her.
05:25I was coming to the camera,
05:28and I said,
05:29No.
05:29It won't happen to me.
05:30It won't happen to me.
05:31And finally, he said,
05:32Like, Urmela, it's fine.
05:34No problem.
05:35Like, you're supposed to kick in the shot.
05:37What's the problem?
05:38It's okay.
05:39I said,
05:40Okay.
05:41And then I came and I really kicked her.
05:45Oh, God.
05:45That was that.
05:46And by that,
05:55It was great fun, you know.
05:58And from small children and to big people
06:01Everyone has really enjoyed this song
06:04I really liked this song
06:06In a very small place, people enjoy one thing
06:12It is one of those kind of songs
06:16Then, Drohi
06:19In my opinion, I am without makeup
06:22There is one song, which is a dream sequence
06:26In that picture, I have maintained a natural kind of look
06:33At this picture, there was a very solid situation
06:40What happened? We were shooting in Sri Lanka
06:44And we were on the beach
06:46And on a very big rock, I and Nagarjuna were sitting
06:49And the camera was on the plane
06:53So, we told us what to do
06:55And we were sitting
06:56And my back was on the beach
06:59I was not able to see it
07:01And the camera came up
07:03When I came up
07:05Before I came up
07:07Suddenly
07:08I jumped
07:10And I fell
07:11And I fell
07:12And I fell
07:13One
07:14The wind came up so quickly
07:16And I fell
07:17That the water was so big
07:19That the water was so big
07:20That I fell
07:22And I fell
07:24And suddenly
07:25I fell
07:26And I was sitting
07:27In the water
07:27That was all I could make out
07:29And Nagarjun
07:31Who is my co-star
07:31And I was really helpful
07:35Because
07:35Out of the way
07:36He came out
07:38And took me
07:39And took me
07:39And I did not get to the top
07:41And took me
07:42And took me
07:43And took me
07:43And I was so
07:43The pain
07:45This morning
07:46So I was walking, walking, walking
07:48And suddenly he grabbed me
07:50And he said hold to the rock
07:52And we both grabbed the rock
07:55So my god
07:56I felt like I was dead
07:58So after that, when my eyes opened
08:00For one minute, I saw pictures
08:03People open and ask
08:04Are you alive or are you dead?
08:07So for nearly two minutes
08:09Then suddenly
08:10I realized that I'm not here
08:12That's what happened
08:14So I enjoyed that song
08:17And then
08:18Shri Manashik
08:20Yahoo
08:22In that film
08:24There are many memorable things
08:28I can tell
08:28For the first time
08:30When I was working with such great artists
08:33Like Rishi Ji
08:34Anupam Ji
08:36And one important thing
08:38In a song in a picture
08:40There is a sequence
08:42Where I go
08:44Where we both have been
08:46In that bungle
08:48And there was a dance sequence
08:50And we were shooting
08:51It was cold
08:53It was cold
08:55And in the day
08:56We used to do a duet song
08:58And without chapel
09:00That I was playing
09:00After all
09:01After all
09:02After all
09:03Then I had to do a sequence
09:04And then I had to do a little bit of a dance
09:08And I didn't have to dance
09:08And I didn't have to dance
09:10And I felt like
09:11I had to do a bit of a dance
09:15And I had to do a bit of a dance
09:17And in a frenzy, you know, I was dancing.
09:20So it was such a sequence.
09:22And it was very important to come with that intensity.
09:24So, my God, that was the time.
09:27I did so hard work for that little sequence.
09:31Oh, my God.
09:32At night, at 2 or 3, I had to go full of my legs.
09:37My legs were falling.
09:39It was so cold.
09:40If it was a little bit of a skin,
09:42it would be like this.
09:44You know, you should be sure.
09:45But at that time, it was very bad and uneven.
09:50I was dancing and dancing.
09:55That was the time.
09:56But when the song came,
09:57I felt that at some point,
09:58it was the hardest part of the hard work.
10:02And it was another time when I met Anupam ji for the first time
10:05and I had to do a scene with him.
10:07It was a very long scene.
10:08And I said, my God, there are so many artists.
10:12And I was performing for the first time.
10:14And then I was like...
10:15And then the dialogue started.
10:19And Anupam ji has a habit.
10:20If he suddenly saw something in the shot,
10:23then he will suddenly say it in the last moment.
10:25If you are not prepared,
10:27if your attention is not in the shot,
10:29then you say, what happened?
10:30It's like that.
10:31So in the first take,
10:33he said something like that.
10:34And I was like,
10:35I'm like,
10:35I'm like,
10:35I'm like,
10:36let's do one more.
10:37And the next take,
10:39the way we clicked out,
10:41that is the scene where he comes.
10:43Because he doesn't recognize me.
10:45And we talk,
10:46I talk,
10:46I talk,
10:47I talk,
10:47I talk,
10:47I talk.
10:47That was very nice.
10:51Do you want to say something?
10:54Yes.
10:57I would like to say that,
10:59I've talked about some scenes
11:03that I like,
11:06or I remember some things.
11:08I would like that,
11:11I would like that,
11:12that you would like me
11:13that all my scenes
11:15and all my films
11:18remember me
11:20and remember me.
11:22Until now,
11:22it has been very nice.
11:23As many pictures
11:24I have done,
11:25acts,
11:26from childhood,
11:27until now,
11:29I got a good response.
11:31So,
11:31I want that,
11:32I try to do it
11:34and you will give me
11:36it.

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