Sunday, October 15, 2006

Love on a bed of red hot chillies!

The bed of roses is a cliché now. A Bollywood movie breaks this stereotype and shows two lovers locked in an embrace on a bed of red hot chillis.

It may not be an ideal idea of romance. But it’s different. Riya Sen and Shreyas Talpade have shot for a sequence in Sangeeth Sivan’s movie Apna Sapna Money Money in which the two are shown sharing a romantic moment on a bed of red chillis.

The sequence introduces Riya Sen’s character of a simple, village belle in the film. In the scene, Shreyas and Riya bump into each other and fall onto a bed of chillis. To add some humour to the shot, the chillis were put in the open in front of a family planning ad which said Hum Do Humare Do.

But shooting this scene was no fun for Riya and Shreyas. In order to give the correct shot, the two had to fall many times on the bed of chillis. Moreover, it was a hot day and the chillis were dry and prickly.

After just a few shots, Riya’s skin began to burn. She even began sneezing ferociously. She had ice rubbed all over her shoulders and neck to take the sting of chillis away. And it took a whole day to get the shot right.

Riya says she will never forget her ordeal of that day.

Apna Sapna Money Money is a comedy about several characters all of who are after money. Apart from Riya and Shreyas, the movie stars Ritesh Deshmukh, Celina Jaitley, Koena Mitra, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff and Payal Rohatgi.