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    - Director Kidar Sharma discusses a famous bathing scene from his 1941 film Chitralekha featuring actress Mehtab. For the scene, Mehtab agreed to perform nude but only if the director was the only other person on set when filming. The scene was praised by critics except two who called it vulgar. - When remaking the film in 1964 with Meena Kumari, her husband expressed concern about including the bathing scene but Sharma said he wasn't making the film for medical students and had a sense of aesthetics. He cast Meena Kumari because of her sensuous eyes rather than body. - Sharma finds today's actresses less sexy and feminine

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    - Director Kidar Sharma discusses a famous bathing scene from his 1941 film Chitralekha featuring actress Mehtab. For the scene, Mehtab agreed to perform nude but only if the director was the only other person on set when filming. The scene was praised by critics except two who called it vulgar. - When remaking the film in 1964 with Meena Kumari, her husband expressed concern about including the bathing scene but Sharma said he wasn't making the film for medical students and had a sense of aesthetics. He cast Meena Kumari because of her sensuous eyes rather than body. - Sharma finds today's actresses less sexy and feminine

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    - Director Kidar Sharma discusses a famous bathing scene from his 1941 film Chitralekha featuring actress Mehtab. For the scene, Mehtab agreed to perform nude but only if the director was the only other person on set when filming. The scene was praised by critics except two who called it vulgar. - When remaking the film in 1964 with Meena Kumari, her husband expressed concern about including the bathing scene but Sharma said he wasn't making the film for medical students and had a sense of aesthetics. He cast Meena Kumari because of her sensuous eyes rather than body. - Sharma finds today's actresses less sexy and feminine

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    Chitralekha

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    - Director Kidar Sharma discusses a famous bathing scene from his 1941 film Chitralekha featuring actress Mehtab. For the scene, Mehtab agreed to perform nude but only if the director was the only other person on set when filming. The scene was praised by critics except two who called it vulgar. - When remaking the film in 1964 with Meena Kumari, her husband expressed concern about including the bathing scene but Sharma said he wasn't making the film for medical students and had a sense of aesthetics. He cast Meena Kumari because of her sensuous eyes rather than body. - Sharma finds today's actresses less sexy and feminine

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    Director Kidar Sharma talks about the famous bathing scene from Chitralekha (1941)

    In this film, I had even bared a beauty on the silver screen for the first time with such finesse, in a bathing scene by Miss Mehtab, that nothing was revealed, but it created an illusion of great feminine charm. Before we started shooting the bathing scene, I took my heroine Mehtab aside and explained to her how and why I was doing the scene. She said, If the story demands this scene, I see no vulgarity in it, and so I am not afraid to strip, because we have no ugliness to hide. However I do have one condition. I consider my director to be just like my father and I will only strip if you ask everyone to clear the set. Since you are a good photographer yourself, please ask the cameraman to set the lights and the camera using a double, and when the set is cleared of everyone, you will be the only one with me and I will gladly perform. When you say the word action I will strip and enter the marble tub and enact the scene where I have to wash my body with a lotus flower till I hear the word `cut but there should be no retakes. I agreed and Mehtab gracefully and beautifully performed. All the critics, barring K.A. Abbas and the correspondent of DeenDuniya, a magazine published from Delhi, panned it ruthlessly. They called it vulgar. Sharma, later remade Chitralekha (1964) for Ranjit with MeenaKumari in the lead. When I went to sign Meena, her husband, Kamal Amrohi, asked me, What about that bathing scene? Meena wont do it. I turned round and said, You dont have to worry. I am not making this film for medical students. I too have a sense of aesthetics. I didnt mean to insult Meena, but I knew she had her limitations, she was too heavy around the hips. I cast her because I needed the kind of sensuousness her eyes could exude. I camouflaged her body to make her look physically sensuous too. Using a cardboard, shaped like hips, and a clever play of lights I made her ample hips look shapely. Sharma doesnt consider todays actresses sexy in the same sense [He is talking about '80s actresses here]. A lack of inhibition, he says, has destroyed their feminity. Those days they used to ask, How many songs will you give me to sing? Today they say, How many rape scenes?

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