Arjun Rampal in “The Last Lear.”

Middle Finger


Arjun Rampal in “The Last Lear.”

How would you like to see Arjun Rampal give you the middle finger? Well you could have, if Suniel Shetty and Ekta Kapoor had allowed things to be.

But they got cold feet at the last moment. Director Saurav Kabra, while shooting a promotional video for EMI, accidentally shot Arjun Rampal giving the middle finger to the camera. While the first cut of the song featured this scene, at a later stage they decided that perhaps such behavior may not go down too well with the Censor Board.

It was a choreographic slip on Rampal’s part that led to the — shall we say — awkward shot. The song was meant to feature the actor using his fingers to count the number sequence 1-2-3 backward. “The dance step was in rhythm with this three-two-one theme, and each finger was being successively reduced. Accidentally Rampal did this. It isn’t something we realized while shooting,” said Kabra.

“After the scene was shot, we immediately realized this, and thought of the repercussions this might have. So we immediately removed the shot.”