Manisha Koirala is one actress whose success wasn’t confined to any entertainment industry. The audience was so in awe of her talent that they would watch all her movies, even if it wasn’t released in Hindi language. One such film is Mani Ratnam’s 1995 romantic drama, Bombay. While her debut Tamil film went on to become an evergreen hit, its soundtrack continues to bring peace to broken hearts. But during an interview, the senior actress revealed shooting them amidst a forest covered with leeches and with a stye on her eye.

While talking to O2 India, Manisha Koirala recalled the ‘difficult song’ Tu Hi Re from the film, Bombay. She went back in time and stated that while filming for one part of the song, she had to be on the rocks with the sea hitting them and big splashes come in. “That was pretty dangerous,” she stressed adding that somehow the team managed to get everything as planned and nothing happened. In another instance, while filming the same track, she has to be in the midst of a thick jungle which was full of leeches.

Recalling the horror, the Heeramandi actress stated if someone dared to walk in the jungle, leeches would be all over their leg. But for the song, she had to run through it wearing a blue skirt. “It was full of leeches, there was a lot of difficulty,” she mentioned. However, they managed to find a mechanism to navigate that tough situation. They were told to put salt while some people wore boots.

In the same interview, the actress also stated that while doing the classic song, Kehna Hi Kya, she had a painful stye on her eye. While they were shooting in Mysore, she told Rajiv Menon, the Director of Photography, about it thinking that the shooting would get called off. But he assured her not to worry about it. Menon suggested Koirala put some makeup on and shoot while he took care of the rest. Eventually, no one even noticed it.

Earlier this year, the actress played the role of Mallikajaan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar and took everyone by surprise.

Taapsee Pannu is one of the most talented actresses in Bollywood. She is fresh from the release of her movies Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba and Khel Khel Mein. In a recent interview, the actress discussed outsiders and industry kids. She revealed how some actors from the outside feel insecure of each other. Taapsee also stated that a good thing to take away from nepotism people is how to stay together.

In a recent conversation with ANI, Taapsee Pannu revealed one good thing that she has learned from the people who are from inside the industry. She said, “The so-called nepotism people who have come in the industry courtesy nepotism. One really good thing that I’ve learned from them is how to stay together and stick together and support each other, which a lot of us people from outside don’t have as much as they have for each other.”

Taapsee continued by saying that the outsiders have become used to competing with each other. She stated that they respected each other and appreciated each other’s work. However, she felt that the ‘vibe’ of standing by each other, irrespective of the film being good or bad, was more in the industry kids.

She added, “Somewhere deep down inside a lot of us will end up feeling insecure with each other only.”

Taapsee talked about the unity among the nepo-kids in the way that they support and recommend each other. She believed that it was one thing that the outsiders could take away from them in a ‘good way.’