Actress Zarina Wahab recalled an incident during the shooting of her Malayalam debut film ‘Madanotsava’, when she was stuck in a difficult situation.
In a recently surfaced video, the actress is seen talking about the challenges of working in Malayalam language. In the video she is saying that even after working in 29 films in Malayalam cinema, she is not familiar with the Malayalam language.
The actress said, “I still don’t know Malayalam, although I have worked in 29 films. My first film was with Kamal Haasan. So we went into the room, they were giving me money. I wanted the money as soon as possible.” Because I wanted to buy a nice flat. So I was very happy because I was able to pay some money for the house. But, there were dialogues and I was thinking, ‘What are these dialogues? I didn’t understand a single word, I was stuck with the money. I thought, ‘I will return the money somehow’, but I wanted to go back.”
He said, “I refused to come out of the room, so Kamal came to me and said, ‘What happened?’ I said, ‘Kamal, I am very sorry that I cannot work, I want to go back.’ Then he said, ‘Now that you have come, we will help you in writing your lines. Just give the right lip movements.’ I gave the first shot, I said, ‘It’s not bad’, I held Kamal and I wrote lines on his hand. And I said, ‘Now I can do a Russian film if someone dubs it.’
