It was actress Karisma Kapoor, belonging to a film family and having films like Andaz Apna Apna, Coolie No.1, and Raja Hindustani to her credit, who recently walked down the memory lane, reminiscing about the day when actors didn't have a vanity van.
Speaking in an interview, the actress, who is currently judging the dancing reality show India's Best Dancer Season 4, spoke about the changes which the film industry has gone through in the last 40-50 years.
"The first film in which I got to work on a monitor was Dil To Pagal Hai. It was during the dance of envy shot.". Yash ji got it and Aditya Chopra, Uday Chopra everybody was there on the sets… 'Aur hum toh paagal ho gaye the' looking at the monitor. We used to think, 'Really? We could see what we have done in a shot"', Karisma, who made her acting debut in 1991 at the age of 16 with Prem Qaidi opposite debutant Harish Kumar, recalled.
She also spoke about the first sync-sound film that she worked on — Zubeidaa.
"I saw another milestone. The first film with sync-sound was Zubeidaa directed by Shyam Benegal. It was the first movie where we put on lapel mics for 'real life sound'," she recalled.
One of the most radical technological changes the actress was referring to is that in Hindi cinema, when the industry moved on from studio dubbing of characters to sync-sound, wherein the dialogues were recorded live on the set, therefore making the scene immersive and besides adding more depth to the narrative.
She added, "The number of vans that are parked outside the sets of this show… We didn't have anything like this. We used to go behind a tree and change our outfits for a scene, sometimes we went to the loo… So yeah, our industry has seen major changes in the last 40-50 years.".
She is currently judged in India's Best Dancer 4 alongside Terence Lewis and Geeta Kapoor.
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