Mumtaz spoke on wearing a bikini onscreen in the 70’s: said- ‘In that era, one could not wear such revealing clothes, did so only on Feroz Khan’s insistence’
Today’s top Bollywood actresses do not shy away from wearing bikinis off and on screen, but in the 70s, it was a big deal for an actress. Even then, actresses like Sharmila Tagore, Parveen Babi, Zeenat Aman and Dimple Kapadia showed courage and did not shy away from wearing bikinis on screen. One of them was Mumtaz, who wore a bikini in the 1972 film ‘Apraadh’. Recently, in an interview, Mumtaz talked about this and said that she was not mentally prepared to do this, but she wore a bikini on screen on the insistence of Feroz Khan. Was not confident about her body – Mumtaz Mumtaz said, ‘I was one of the top heroines of that era. If I wanted, I could have said that I don’t want to do this, I don’t want to wear a bikini. I did this only on the insistence of Feroz Khan. He had assured me that if I did not like it, then he would edit that scene from the film.’ Mumtaz further said, ‘I was not confident about my body. I thought I would not look good in a bikini on screen. Firoz told me – If you do not like it, I will remove the scene. I could trust him, so I agreed because I knew that he would not cheat me, when I saw the scene, I felt that I was looking very good. Later, many producers offered me roles in which I had to wear bold outfits or bikinis but I refused. After that, I never wore a bikini on screen. ‘ ‘Today’s actresses are bold’ Mumtaz further said that Bollywood has become very progressive now and now it is not a big deal for actresses to wear bikini or swimsuit. Mumtaz said, ‘We could never wear such revealing clothes but today’s heroines are very bold’. Mumtaz worked in many hit films. Talking about Mumtaz, she has worked in many hit films of the 60-70s, including Gehra Daag, Humraaz, Aapki Kasam, Roti and Nagin. Her pairing with Rajesh Khanna was very much liked.
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