After hundreds carefully learnt the art of throwing a cigarette in the air the way celebrity Rajnikant does, Aishwarya Rai too joined the throng. No, the actress did not attempt to complete the trick herself but was keen on observing Rajnikant’s popular scene of tossing his cigarette in the air. Here’s one wispy prank she played…
Aishwarya, who was shooting with Rajnikant, while he had to toss the cigarette, repeatedly kept making a mistake so that there could be re-takes. It turns out that she just couldn’t get over Rajni’s twisted stunt.
A source reveals, “Rajnikant’s trademark fashion of throwing the cigarette, is loved by Ash. She could ask him a couple of times at max to enact this scene for her, but she wanted to view it repeatedly.
Thus she purposely kept making errors while shooting her scene; Rajnikant finished up enacting his trademarked stunt six times.”
The resource remains, “It was after the wrap-up of the shoot that Ash mentioned to Rajnikant about how much she enjoys the way he does this particular stunt, and she was bluffing so that she could see him do this repeatedly.
Rajnikant burst out laughing and took it in his stride.”
Shankar, the director of the movie, said, “We only realised while shooting that Ash was such a big fan of Rajni sir.”
Shankar, let’s hope that the cigarette was not lit. It’s not allowed on screen the last we heard…