Joy Mukherjee

When Mala Sinha Slapped Sharmila Tagore

Cold wars between two actresses in the times gone-by were not unheard-of. It is said that when Sharmila Tagore and Raakhee worked together in Yash Chopra’s Daag Yash Chopra had to pamper both the heroines individually and make them feel special, as the leading man Rajesh Khanna was apparently busy playing one heroine against the other. Five years earlier to Daag, in 1968 Sharmila was part of another cold war with yet another heroine Mala Sinha. The two were cast as Joy Mukherjee’s heroines in Humsaya which Joy directed and cast himself in a double role. Hence two heroines. The ex | Click Here...