He did that and Sai announced that the scene was over. This left Dharmendra shocked and he asked about his close-up shots. "He said ‘but you haven’t done my close-up. I said ‘it’s not needed.

Paranjpye waded into this male-dominated space ... before her marriage broke up and she returned to Pune with a six-month-old Sai. Back home, she even acted in films, the most famous being V ...

Director Sai Paranjpye reveals how her film with Dharmendra came to a standstill because he thought that the director was favouring Shabana Azmi more and he just lost interest in it half way through!