The thought behind Ishita’s bikini scene
TMonika Rawal Kukreja
SHE CREDITS THE SONU KE TITU KI SWEETY DIRECTOR FOR TURNING THE SENSUOUS SCENE INTO A COMIC ONE
hose who watched the recent release, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, would remember a scene where actor Ishita Raj Sharma’s character Pihu (Titu’s ex girlfriend) touches Alok Nath’s feet. Clad in a bikini, she’s dancing away wild during the peppy song, Kaun Nachdi, when she covers her cleavage, as she bends to take his blessings. Well, Ishita has been getting a lot of praise ever since for turning a sensuous bikini visual into a comic relief.
“Imagine it is so funny. You are supposed to look hot, sexy and sensuous in a bikini, but for the first time, someone wore bikini and turned it into comedy scene,” says Ishita, who credits director Luv Ranjan for the applause. “That was totally his input [to shoot the scene a particular way]. He said, ‘let’s try this’. And my first reaction was ‘Are you serious? Look at me [in a bikini] and you are asking me to do this?’ And when I did it, the entire crew was in splits,” recalls Ishita.
Besides several claps, there were some who also trolled her for the scene. She responds, “Come on, I wore a bikini in Europe on a bachelor party on a yacht with 200 other girls wearing a bikini. How does it look wrong? I’d be apprehensive of doing it in a scene or a place where it’s objectionable or doesn’t go in accordance with the setting. There’s nothing vulgar or vahiyaat about wearing a bikini.”
However, Ishita is quick to add that this doesn’t mean she will blindly do bikini scenes in her future films. “If it (wearing a bikini) is indispensible as per the script, I don’t mind doing it. It has to go with the sequence and making sure that it would be shot well,” she says.