Sonali Kulkarni remembers how Sanjay Dutt comforted her during Mission Kashmir's ‘bedroom scene’: 'My lips were quivering, hands were trembling'

Actor Sonali Kulkarni shared an amusing story about how her co-star Sanjay Dutt helped her unwind during the filming of a scene that the unit had named the "bedroom scene" in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's drama thriller ‘Mission Kashmir’.
Sonali, who was very new to the industry, recalled being quite nervous when on the set the hairdresser asked her whether she had "waxed" for the scene, leaving the young actor confused and scared.
During a conversation with Siddharth Kannan, Sonali shared, “There was a scene which everyone called ‘bedroom scene’. It wasn’t needed to be named that all but that’s what people used to call it back then. The hairdresser, after my costume change, suddenly asked me, ‘You have waxed right?' I was shocked, nervous, said maybe, yes. I was wearing a gown, and I got so nervous! I took my position and I was just not able to concentrate. My lips were quivering, hands were trembling!”
In the scene, Sanjay Dutt tells her, ‘Today, Altaf called me abba’ and she replies, ‘He has called me ammi before.’ After some banter, the sequence ends with the two characters, who are portrayed as husband and wife, hugging. Sonali shared, “But for that, I was so nervous, I would fix my gown, stand, sit. Sanjay saw that and called me. He said, ‘Ismein na, pappi bhi nahi hai, bas do dialogue hai, aur hug karna hai (this scene doesn’t even have a peck, just two lines and then a hug). He continued, ‘I am nervous, now if even you get nervous like this, then the scene just won’t happen beta. So just relax. He is too cute!”
After working in ‘Mission Kashmir’, which was headlined by Hrithik Roshan, the actress was then seen in Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Dil Chahta Hai’. She was last seen in Sobhita Dhulipala starrer ‘Love, Sitara’.