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Indian Express
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
‘People ripped off my denim jacket after Musu Musu Haasi', recalls Dino Morea: ‘Bigger stars suddenly contacted me, people were going nuts'
Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi marked many firsts when it released in 1999. The musical romantic drama, directed by late Raj Kaushal, marked the debut of actors Dino Morea, Sanjay Suri and Twinkle Khanna's sister Rinke Khanna. It was also the debut of playback singer Shaan and beginning of the iconic music duo Vishal and Shekhar. While the film couldn't make a mark in its audience mind, the song'Musu Musu Haasi Deu' shot Dino Morea to fame, making him the heartthrob of Bollywood. His fandom was such that when he once went for the promotion of a film, his fans ripped off his denim jacket in excitement. In a recent interview with Just Too Filmy, Dino Morea recalled the time when they launched the film and the kind of craze it created among the audience. He said, 'That release and the kind of adulation we got at that time was phenomenal. I remember going doing a premiere in Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. I didn't expect people to show up the way they showed up.' 'I remember, I walked out of the cinema in Kolkata and people ripped my jacket. It was a denim jacket. People were going nuts. It was more so because of the song Musu Musu Haasi. People loved it. Delhi was insane, Bangalore too because it is my hometown. I was in shock. I understood the reach of cinema.' Dino Morea shared how this love and craze was all organic and real as no PR existed back then. ALSO READ | Deepika Padukone talks about 'shutting out the noise' amid fallout with Sandeep Reddy Vanga: 'Standing by my decision, collaborating with people I know I'll have good time with…' He said, 'At that time, we could talk about being in relationships. We were covered so much for being in a relationship. It was all organic. There was no PR at that time, we didn't do PR, it was pyaar. We didn't call photographers to come and stand and wait and take a picture. None of that happened. It was just organic. It was not set up. That was the beauty of it.' While the song 'Musu Musu Haasi' made Dino Morea the heartthrob of Bollywood, it was his the 2002 film Raaz that helped him make his mark in the industry. He shared, 'Raaz cemented my foothold in the film industry. People would say, 'okay, that's a huge success. It's kind of arrived.' That gave me a lot of confidence. Raaz brought respect to horror films because before that there was nothing good in terms of horror. Raaz was primarily a love story which resonated with people around the world. That movie set me up in the industry. Suddenly the bigger stars started to congratulate me. I could see the difference.' Dino Morea recently featured in the Netflix series The Royals starring Ishaan Khatter, Bhumi Pednekar, Nora Fatehi and Zeenat Aman, among others.
News18
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Mandira Bedi On Why She Doesn't Mark Raj Kaushal's Death Anniversary: ‘I Decided…'
Last Updated: Mandira Bedi's husband Raj Kaushal passed away on June 30, 2021, following a heart attack. Mandira Bedi recently opened up about coping with the death of her husband Raj Kaushal, who passed away in 2021. She said that the first major occasions and festivals after his death were really hard for her. Mandira also shared that one year after his death, she chose to stop observing his death anniversaries. She questioned the need to commemorate such a painful day, saying there's nothing worth remembering in it as it's a sad memory. In a conversation with Satyadev Barman on YouTube channel The Full Circle, Mandira Bedi said that while she did all the rituals for one year after Raj Kaushal's death, she decided after a year that she will not mark his death anniversaries anymore. 'I did a one-month puja, one-year puja and all other rituals. After the one-year puja, I decided I am not going to mark this day (death anniversary) anymore… why should we mark this day…what is there to remember in this day… it's a sad day in our lives," she said. She also added, 'I can say it now without fully breaking down, that first year, the first of everything, the first birthday, the first anniversary, first Diwali, Raj loved Diwali, the first New Year, they were all really hard. The firsts of everything is when you sit in your room and you shut the door and you don't want to talk to anybody and you cry, and you cry till you can't cry anymore." Mandira spoke about how their kids dealt with the death of Raj Kaushal. Their adopted daughter Tara was only 8-9 months at the time of his death, and hadn't known him for long, but their son Vir was affected deeply. She said that she never told Vir not to cry, and instead, advised him to let the tears out. ''Boys don't cry' that is crap. I told him cry as much as you feel like and let those tears out because the sooner you let all those tears out we will be able to remember him from a place of joy," she said. In February this year, Mandira paid a heartfelt tribute to her late husband Raj Kaushal, sharing a never-seen-before picture on their 26th wedding anniversary. She posted a short reel with an unseen picture from their wedding. In the caption, she wrote, 'We would have been married 26 years today. Miss you." First Published:
