She said, “He was a complete man. I have never seen a man so wonderfully endowed with the most beautiful traits. One small thing that I can generate that accentuates and illustrates what kind of person he was. Once, when I was shooting in Kashmir, I think I was shooting for Shagird. And the weather in Kashmir suddenly changed for the worse. We could not shoot for eight or nine days over there. We just kept sitting, and eventually, Samir Ganguli and Subodh Mukherjee decided suddenly overnight that this wouldn’t happen. And they shifted the entire unit from the North to the Jog Falls in the South. We had to imagine a song there. With this sudden turn of events, nothing was organised. There was nothing to eat for the unit. I usually had my own stuff and everything, but they were, of course, late in coming. They had to come in from Kashmir. And I did what I never do, which is eat what is being served. And unfortunately, the food that I ate made me sick. I was so sick that night that by morning I had food poisoning. And they had to cancel the shoot that day. Somehow I finished the shoot, but when I was back at home in Mumbai, I landed in trouble with a terrible illness.”

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