Raveena Tandon, in a new interview, opened up on rejecting films like Prem Qaidi and Phool Aur Kaante before stepping into the film industry with Salman Khan starrer Patthar Ke Phool.
Raveena Tandon made her big splash in Hindi cinema with Patthar Ke Phool opposite Salman Khan in 1991. Recently, in a chat with an entertainment portal, the actress admitted that she wasn’t keen on joining the film industry. However, destiny had some other plans in store for her!
Raveena revealed that she turned down movies like Prem Qaidi, Phool Aur Kaante and a few others before she finally made her big screen debut with Patthar Ke Phool. She also mentioned how Salman watched her work separately before casting her in that film.
The Shool actress told Lehren, “At that time, Bunty Walia, who was a friend of mine and a co-model on an ad, called Salman and said ‘You have to meet this girl and I think she is the next big thing and you are looking for a new girl.’ Salman separately came to see my work. I think it was destiny.”
She added, “I had already said no to five to six films before Pathhar Ke Phool. I have said no to Jungle, I have said no to Heer Ranjha, I have said no to one film with Lucky Ali, I said no to Pahlaj ji’s film, I said no to Prem Qaidi and I had actually said no to Phool Aur Kaante as well. So, I was already saying no because I did not know if I wanted to do movies.”
While Prem Qaidi marked Karisma Kapoor’s acting debut, Phool Aur Kaante turned out to be Madhoo’s first film.
Further, in the same interview, Raveena said, that her father Ravi Tandon launched her brother Rajiv Tandon but not her because she was not sure about doing films. She said, “I never wanted to do movies, that was never the aim. I was never interested. But this was my destiny.”
Workwise, Raveena Tandon was last in Yash’s blockbuster KGF: Chapter 2. Next, the actress has Akshay Kumar’s multistarrer Welcome To The Jungle and Sanjay Dutt-Parth Samthaan starrer Ghudchadi in the pipeline.
