19:51 (IST), Apr 14

Samantha’s experience wearing heavy lehengas

Samantha commented on the weight of the custom-duty lehengas she wore during the film shoot. She said, “So Neeta Lulla ma’am had made some of the most beautiful costumes for ‘Shaakuntalam.’ There was this song where I had to wear a beautiful lehenga. She had kept dancing in mind and hence, made some lehengas lighter and some heavier, (like 30 kgs kinda heavy1). But what was meant to be for the song, didn’t really happen, and I ended up wearing a 30 kg lehenga for the dance. When I was spinning, the lehenga would often take me out of my frame. My choreographer Raju sir would shout, ‘can’t you stay in the frame’, and I would say, ‘I tried, but the lehenga is taking me out of the frame. We had to take 10 to 15 takes because of that.”